On 21 February 2013 16:48, Maria Miteva <[email protected]> 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-conversion/
> and
> http://www.mwusers.com/forums/showthread.php?8098-Moving-to-MediaWiki-from-Confluence
> 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.

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