Thanks, Robert!

We also use Confluence as a managed service - so it is probably the latest 
version, but I will check. That would be the place where we would put our Wiki 
version of documentation.

Yes, I do have a bunch of legacy documents too - many, many pages , so maybe 
Mif2Go may be a necessary purchase for me as well. Bulk conversion is probably 
not critical, but certainly new versions could be done that way as I work on 
them.

Regards,

Z

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Robert Lauriston
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 11:04 AM
To: Syed Zaeem Hosain ([email protected]); [email protected]
Subject: migrating from FrameMaker to a wiki

Around a year ago I spent 4-5 months evaluating wikis with the goal of 
migrating from FrameMaker. Confluence 4 and MindTouch were by far the most 
practical, since they're based on XHTML rather than wiki markup.

One big challenge was converting thousands of pages of legacy docs. I got 
MIF2Go working on a page-by-page basis for both. I got stuck because I couldn't 
find a documented bulk import utility that worked.

Confluence has a very active user community and great support, but I (and 
others) reached a dead end as far as bulk conversion from
FrameMaker:

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/19789/converting-from-framemaker-to-confluence-4?page=1#27775

WebWorks ePublisher can convert from FrameMaker to Confluence, but that's wiki 
markup and obsolete. If they ever update that to the new XHTML format that 
could solve the problem.

If you're on a tight budget, forget about MindTouch, you get a choice between a 
hosted solution (MindTouch TCS) that's fairly expensive and a free version 
(MindTouch Core) that doesn't have enough support.


On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Syed Zaeem Hosain
([email protected]) <[email protected]> wrote:
> Anyway, as of yesterday, I am now exploring making all my work be 
> hyperlinked Wiki documents instead

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