Mary Sue Ittner wrote: > I've been looking at wikis for the > past week and pm wiki is the one I like the best of all the ones I've > researched. I will recommend PMwiki. It's easy to learn even if you have little previous experience with managing websites, and is very flexible and robust.
> I searched your archives to see if anyone else had questions > about converting from phpwiki and found a few messages from 2005 and don't > know if the solutions suggested are still relevant. > I don't see why they shouldn't be. Read trough them quickly and there are no significant basic changes to pmwiki (just new features). > We have a lot of pages, probably more than 900 and also a lot of images > (around 8500) and the wiki syntax is very different for a lot of the things > we do (italics, bold, tables, internal links, etc.) The solution suggested in the old threads is to do a string replace of wiki syntax for each page.This might help: http://diberri.dyndns.org/wikipedia/html2wiki/ http://search.cpan.org/~diberri/HTML-WikiConverter-0.61/lib/HTML/WikiConverter.pm With the GUIeditbuttons of PMwiki it should be rather easy for you to get used to the new syntax. > Our image files were > not stored in the wiki, but in a files section and originally we just had > the url to point to them. One of my wiki helpers figured out a way to do > thumbnails for our pictures. Here's how he explains it: " One of the big > features was the addition of on the fly thumbnail creation. If the editor > of the wiki page provided the proper syntax around a url to an image file > on our server, our customized wiki would check to see if a thumbnail sized > image file existed in a parallel directory structure. If not it would > create the thumbnail sized image file, and the parallel directories too if > needed. It would also automatically regenerate the thumbnail file if its > timestamp got out of synch with the full sized image file. This was really > nice because we got good page load times because we weren't just sending > the full sized images to the user's browser and resizing them. It also > automatically managed the creation of the thumbnail files and directories > so the Wiki users could just upload a new image file, edit a wiki page to > add their new image and the wiki would take care of it all without any > intervention from the user or the wiki administrators." We really loved > this feature and would hope we could find a way to keep it. Perhaps as a > recipe? As you probably noticed uploading pictures to pmwiki is handled by the attach-markup, so uploading new pictures is not difficult. I suppose that you can move all the files into a uploads directory and convert the image links into pmwiki-markup. As for thumbnails there is a recipe here: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/AutoThumber I haven't tried it myself, but it seems like it works for some people at least. > Switching sounds like a nightmare (we considered it several years ago and > none of us wanted to take on all the work.) Now we have more to change, but > I think we don't have a choice if we want to keep what we have for the long > run. The other option is to have someone create a custom wiki for us and we > are looking into that, but I worry about the ongoing support for that and > don't know if we could afford it either. > Instead of having someone creating a custom wiki for you, have that someone help you do the conversion, it's probably easier and cheaper. Maybe try to ask some of the people that did a succesful conversion before (seems like Oliver Betz is both active on this list and have converted from phpwiki earlier). audun myhra bergwitz _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
