Re: [Tiki-devel] Migrating from MoinMoin to Tiki

Volker Wysk <post-hhF2Jplw28UoZk/[email protected]> Thu, 08 Apr 2021 17:59:58 +0200
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Am Donnerstag, den 08.04.2021, 15:41 +0100 schrieb Jonny Bradley via
TikiWiki-devel:
> Hi Volker, welcome to Tiki!
> 
> As far as i know there's no command line import for wiki pages, but there
> is a rather old feature which can import and parse html into wiki pages,
> and there's also a way of importing XML into wiki pages 
> https://doc.tiki.org/XML-Wiki-Import-Export

I would've been surprised if Tiki didn't have a reasonable solution. ;-)
Looks like this is the path I'll go.

> You might also find some tips or inspiration here 
> https://doc.tiki.org/Migrate-to-Tiki

I might end up adding a basic MoinMoin-to-Tiki tool.

> For trackers, the "tabular formats" are now quite robust for exporting and
> importing data to and from CSV files (also via the command line 
> https://doc.tiki.org/Console). 

That's good to hear. Problem solved.

> You can create a new tracker directly from a flat CSV file 
> https://doc.tiki.org/Tracker-Tabular, and soon (thanks to Victor) from
> ODBC data sources.
> 
> Hopefully that should get you started?

Yes, that gets me started. Thank you.

> Maybe come along and say hello at our next Roundtable Meetings?

We'll see about that.

Bye!

Volker

> 
> More info here https://tiki.org/Roundtable-Meeting-2021-04
> 
> jonny
> 
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> > On 8 Apr 2021, at 09:46, Volker Wysk <post-hhF2Jplw28UoZk/[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I've tested Tiki now for some time, and I must say, I'm impressed. It's much
> > better than MoinMoin.
> > 
> > Now I want to migrate from MoinMoin to Tiki. The wiki pages need to be
> > transferred, and I also have some 2000 wiki pages which shall be transformed
> > to tracker records.
> > 
> > My problem now is: How do I get the data into Tiki? I can access the
> > MoinMoin pages directly, since they are flat files. But for Tiki, is there a
> > command line interface? Should I go over HTTP? Or do I need to directly
> > access the underlying MySQL database?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Volker
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