wiki update

Here's my conversation with wikispaces.


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from: me
to: help@wikispaces
date: Jun 17, 2007 1:44 PM
subject: import into wikispaces?

I'm using wikispaces on sourceforge.

I have html help files that I want to convert to wikispaces.
I have the source for the help system, so I can convert
it into any format.

Is there a way to bulk-import into wikispaces?
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from: help@wikispaces
to: me
date: Jun 18, 2007 12:55 PM

Hi Mark.

We don't have an easy way to go from HTML to wikitext at the moment. You
can copy and paste from a browser into the visual editor and if it's
simple enough HTML it might do a decent job.

How many pages are you looking to get in?

Adam
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from: me
to: help@wikispaces
date: Jun 18, 2007 2:24 PM

Thanks for your reply.

I have a medium-sized application, with a full-fledged help
system. More than a hundred pages, fewer than a thousand.

Note that I'm not looking for an HTML to wikitext conversion;
I can do that myself. What I'm looking for is a way to bulk-import
without having to copy/paste each page into the browser.

I'd like to import one big flat file that has some kind of
end-of-file markers in it, which would delineate each wiki
page. Each wiki page would already be in wikispaces
mark-up.
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No further reply from wikispaces.
Sounds like each page will have to be pasted in.

I'm okay with this, and it seems like the best
way to go because it reduces the admin burden.
And, the plan is for it to be a one-time load
anyway.

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See:
http://bitpim.wiki.sourceforge.net/

The pages in the wiki that are currently populated are:

Welcome
Wiki Strategy
Tour
About BitPim (only first section, but LICENSE subsection is complete)

I expect this is the look & feel we'll have when all done.
Please have a look.
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To get a .zip of the test pages currently on the wiki:
go to: http://bitpim.wiki.sourceforge.net/space/about
and click on Export Space as HTML: "Windows .zip" (or "Unix.tgz")

All the pages come over as individual html files.
The frame window does not come over, but no big deal.

Are these files what you guys need for the help system?

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Regards,
Mark.

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