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

Hi Volker

> On 8 Apr 2021, at 16:59, Volker Wysk <post-hhF2Jplw28UoZk/[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Woo! Yell if you need any help :)

>> 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.

Hope so,

jonny


> 
> Bye!
> 
> Volker
> 
>> 
>> More info here https://tiki.org/Roundtable-Meeting-2021-04
>> 
>> jonny
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 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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