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Maria Miteva

21 Feb 2013 21 Feb '13

4:48 p.m.

Hi , No one brought this up as an issues but I was wondering if converting from another wiki to MediaWiki or the other way around is a problem for people and new tools to do that would be useful. How often is it needed and how is it currently done? I see mostly old posts and tools around. From lookng at http://www.richardcarterconsultancy.com/2011/12/twiki-to-mediawiki-conversi… and http://www.mwusers.com/forums/showthread.php?8098-Moving-to-MediaWiki-from-… infer it's not an easy task. Also, it doesn't seem (from my humble observation) to be done often. Is that because its not needed or because of the lack of friendly tools? Thank you. Mariya

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David Gerard

21 Feb 21 Feb

5:01 p.m.

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On 21 February 2013 16:48, Maria Miteva <mariya.miteva(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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No one brought this up as an issues but I was wondering if converting from another wiki to MediaWiki or the other way around is a problem for people and new tools to do that would be useful. How often is it needed and how is it currently done? I see mostly old posts and tools around. From lookng at http://www.richardcarterconsultancy.com/2011/12/twiki-to-mediawiki-conversi… and http://www.mwusers.com/forums/showthread.php?8098-Moving-to-MediaWiki-from-… I infer it's not an easy task. Also, it doesn't seem (from my humble observation) to be done often. Is that because its not needed or because of the lack of friendly tools?

There are no good tools for any given conversion, because it's a job that anyone is likely to do precisely once - so the knowledge doesn't accumulate the way it would in an ongoing open-source project. That said, whenever I hear of someone trying to convert another wiki engine to MediaWiki - or away from MW to something else - I encourage them to add their work to mediawiki.org so others can build on it. - d.

Greg Grossmeier

6:25 p.m.

New subject: other wiki to MediaWiki and vice versa conversion. Who has done it?

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That said, whenever I hear of someone trying to convert another wiki engine to MediaWiki - or away from MW to something else - I encourage them to add their work to mediawiki.org so others can build on it.

Just a quick note here (not sure where to put it on mediawiki.org), Ryan Lane just converted the OpenStack wiki from moinmoin to MW: http://ryandlane.com/blog/2013/02/19/openstack-wiki-migration/ Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | [[User:Greg G (WMF)]] A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

David Gerard

6:59 p.m.

New subject: other wiki to MediaWiki and vice versa conversion. Who has done it?

On 21 February 2013 18:25, Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

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> That said, whenever I hear of someone trying to convert another wiki > engine to MediaWiki - or away from MW to something else - I encourage > them to add their work to mediawiki.org so others can build on it.

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Just a quick note here (not sure where to put it on mediawiki.org), Ryan Lane just converted the OpenStack wiki from moinmoin to MW: http://ryandlane.com/blog/2013/02/19/openstack-wiki-migration/

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MoinMoin - started by me after my one single conversion. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Data_exchange_with_other_systems is where to list this stuff. - d.

Maria Miteva

22 Feb 22 Feb

12:35 p.m.

New subject: other wiki to MediaWiki and vice versa conversion. Who has done it?

This question was actually the result of reading Ryan Lane's post about converting from MoinMoin to MediaWiki. I was wondering if it would be interesting for people to have better conversion tools or at least better documentation of previous effort or is it somthing that happens rather rarely or is very much case-to-case specific. Currently the documetation seems quite scarse. Mariya On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:59 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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On 21 February 2013 18:25, Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

Just a quick note here (not sure where to put it on mediawiki.org), Ryan Lane just converted the OpenStack wiki from moinmoin to MW: http://ryandlane.com/blog/2013/02/19/openstack-wiki-migration/

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MoinMoin - started by me after my one single conversion. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Data_exchange_with_other_systems is where to list this stuff. - d. _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-enterprise mailing list Mediawiki-enterprise(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-enterprise

David Gerard

12:36 p.m.

New subject: other wiki to MediaWiki and vice versa conversion. Who has done it?

On 22 February 2013 12:35, Maria Miteva <mariya.miteva(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Yeah, the answer seems to be "add everything you can think of to the wiki". - d.

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