Hi Nicolas,
On 19 Mar 2015 at 15:38:02, Nicolas Delsaux (nicolas.dels...@gmx.fr(mailto:nicolas.dels...@gmx.fr)) wrote: > Hi, > I'm in organization where we have 3 unsynchronized wikis, implemented > using the software named in subject (ie JSPWiki/DokuWiki/mediawiki). > I would like to merge their content in one unique wiki, obviously > implemented using XWiki (due to the excellent interview Vincent Massol > and Ludovic Dubost gave to the castcodeurs podcast). Nice choice! :) > I have seen there are extensions to have content of those legacy wiki > imported into XWiki. > However, i'm not sure I understand how they work. I don’t know if you’ve seen this doc page which may provide a bit more information: http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/Imports#HImportingfromanotherwiki > 1 - JSPWiki to XWiki > > There seems to be an old (?) extension at > http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/JSPWiki+To+XWiki+Conversion, > documented by Vincent Massol. From what I understand, the Java code in > this extension has to be compiled independently, and run as a > stand-alone program on the machine hosting the JSPWiki server. It will > generate a XAR that can be injected into XWiki. Am I right ? If so, it > is hardly an extension of XWiki, but rather a companion program (but I'm > nitpicking). However, as a stand-alone program, isn't it available as an > executable JAR somewhere ? Yes, this is an old script written a long time ago (not by me, I just made it available on that page ;)), before XWiki Rendering (see http://rendering.xwiki.org) existed. I have no idea how well it works. > 2 - Dokuwiki to XWiki > > This time, it's a valid XWiki extension : > http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Import+DokuWiki+into+XWiki+Application > which is easily installable using Extension manager (cool !). However, I > wonder how it will work with XWiki 6.4.2 ... > > 3 - mediawiki to XWiki > > This time ... it seems like there is no extension. or is it ? So to summarize, we’re lacking some nice migrators to migrate from all those wikis to XWiki. We only have scripts maintained by the community. Now we’ve put in place all the infrastructure for such a migrator. We call it the Filters Application (a bad name IMO but it does more than just migrate content from wiki to wikis, it accepts any input and any output). See http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Filter+Application Right now this Filters app supports only a few input/outputs: http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Filter+Module#HExistingmodules Since there’s a confluence input module, it means you can give this Filter app a confluence zip as input and as output you can put an XWiki instance and it’ll import the content. We’re lacking input modules for the wikis you mentioned above: JSPWiki, Dokuwiki and MediaWiki. So there are 4 solutions I can see at this stage: * You import your content page by page (since XWiki can read natively the formats of the wikis you mentioned) * You use one of the extension scripts from http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Tags?do=viewTag&tag=migration but I don’t know what result you’ll get (I’ve never used them myself but I think the mediawiki ones are pretty good) * You want to contribute/participate and we can guide you on how to write a Filter module. If you wish to see the code for the confluence one, it’s here: https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/tree/master/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-filter/xwiki-platform-filter-streams/xwiki-platform-filter-stream-confluencexml * You want someone to do the work for you! Check the list of professional services at http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Support#HProfessionalSupport > bonus - xwiki-OLD to xwiki > > We also have some content in an old (5.0.1) version of XWiki. How do I > migrate ? That’s relatively easy :) You can export and reimport for example, see http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/ImportExport > Conclusion - cheers > > I must confess I had never tried before XWiki, and my first impression > is that it's a robust and perfectly usable wiki solution. The XWiki team > did a really impressive work. Thanks, I hope you’ll enjoy it! -Vincent > Nicolas Delsaux _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
