On 18/08/07, Chris Hellyar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone done a successful conversion of a large/complex phpwiki to
> mediawiki?

I haven't tried, but when I last looked into it, there was a converter
that would transform the page markup from one to the other. You could
probably read through a phpwiki dump file, extract each page
individually (I think it's just a zip file, or perhaps a tar file),
convert it and then HTTP POST it into the mediawiki ...

You could also look at something like the WikiCreole
http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Home markup, as they might have
something for converting into their markup and out again.

I would like to know how you get on, because I am thinking of moving
the CLUG wiki off phpwiki; I'm not comfortable with the current
condition of the development cycle. However I now dislike *all* the
wiki markups, so I wrote my own (still in progress,
http://quill.inode.co.nz). It's not yet integrated into anything
except Trac ...

-jim

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