There is a possibility to download Wikipedia databases [1] in XML format, which needs some post processing, to be used with TW. ... BUT the problem here is size:
These files expand to multiple terabytes of text. Please only download these if you know you can cope with this quantity of data. Go to Latest Dumps <http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/> and look out for all the files that have 'pages-meta-history' in their name. So IMO this is a no go! ----------- I think, the most promising way is the wikipedia api: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API or export: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Creating_a_bot#APIs_for_bots Special:Export seems to use XML only, so imo the wiki/API and API for bots is an option here. If Special:Export could create CVS or JSON it could be directly used by TW, with drang and drop import. ... but ... There is still a syntax problem. MediaWiki syntax is completely different to the TW syntax. ... With an export / import mechanism, you'll need to also export / import the "meta structure" eg: tags, fields and may be relations ... So imo it can be done, for a limited amount of data but there is some work, that needs to be done. --------------- The TW json format for 2 tiddlers would look like this: [ { "created": "20150107082527588", "text": "some text for tiddler 1 with an internal link to [[tiddler 2]]", "title": "tiddler 1", "tags": "tag1 tag2", "modified": "20150107082619778", "field1": "some text for field1" }, { "created": "20150107082624952", "text": "some text for tiddler 2 with an internal link to [[tiddler 1]]", "title": "tiddler 2", "tags": "tag1 tag2", "modified": "20150107082705968", "field1": "some more text for field1", "field2": "text for field2" } ] A file, that contains this text can be directly imported to TW out of the box. ---------- CVS format looks like this: "title","text","modified","created","field1","field2","tags" "tiddler 1","some text for tiddler 1 with an internal link to [[tiddler 2]]","20150107082619778","20150107082527588","some text for field1","","tag1 tag2" "tiddler 2","some text for tiddler 2 with an internal link to [[tiddler 1]]","20150107082705968","20150107082624952","some more text for field1","text for field2","tag1 tag2" I don't know, how to import this file. ------------- Important: - Tiddler fields are dynamic. - Number of Tags is dynamic - TW Wiki Syntax is completely different, so some conversion would need to be done. I hope that helps. have fun! mario [1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
