On 29/06/07, Brenda Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:24:12 Nick Rout wrote:
> On Fri, June 29, 2007 10:20 am, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> > It does :-) and I'd rather run postgresql.
> > If anyone can find a converter from phpwiki to mediawiki, I'd like to
> > hear about it ...
And if there isn't - lets write one.
exporting/importing WikiPages ought to be simple -- the rest (users, roles??)
harder.
There are a couple of rough converters for the phpwiki markup to
others, I don't see anything that will specifically convert a database
though. I guess migrations aren't that common. Dumping all the pages
out would be feasible in a couple of easy scripts.
However, a potential migration exposes the issue of version history,
and content ownership. The CLUG wiki doesn't mind when someone asserts
ownership of an edit, but requires that it's licensed with CC By-SA
2.0. If we migrated the "current state" we'd lose the edit history ...
although in theory the full diffs could be stored as an object in the
new wiki, just not as an integrated functional history.
ThereIsNoCLUG, but I'd want to hear people's opinions about the
importance of this history before proposing losing it all ...
Users and roles are theoretically simple; they have no "value" because
the wiki is publically open, and there are no identity checks.
-jim
