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-conversio... and http://www.mwusers.com/forums/showthread.php?8098-Moving-to-MediaWiki-from-C... 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
On 21 February 2013 16:48, Maria Miteva mariya.miteva@gmail.com wrote:
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-conversio... and http://www.mwusers.com/forums/showthread.php?8098-Moving-to-MediaWiki-from-C... 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.
<quote name="David Gerard" date="2013-02-21" time="17:01:24 +0000">
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
On 21 February 2013 18:25, Greg Grossmeier greg@wikimedia.org wrote:
<quote name="David Gerard" date="2013-02-21" time="17:01:24 +0000">
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/
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.
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@gmail.com wrote:
On 21 February 2013 18:25, Greg Grossmeier greg@wikimedia.org wrote:
<quote name="David Gerard" date="2013-02-21" time="17:01:24 +0000">
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/
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.
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On 22 February 2013 12:35, Maria Miteva mariya.miteva@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Yeah, the answer seems to be "add everything you can think of to the wiki".
- d.
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