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Migrating from MediaWiki to TikiWiki
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MediaWiki to TikiWiki converter

MediaWiki is a vastly popular wiki engine. It is excellent for sites like Wikipedia. However, some people want more features and would like to use TikiWiki instead.

Please see:

Thus, a MediaWiki to TikiWiki converter will be was started on January 5-6 2008: http://wiki.facil.qc.ca/CodeFest2008

Background information

Note: we are looking for volunteers to test the migration script and report issues and requests for enhancements. Please contact Marc Laporte

To test

Requires

  • PHP5 with DOM extension.
  • A MediaWiki data dump
  • A working version of 2.0

Steps

To do list

Convert script

The actual code to migrate the data.

  • Convert the syntax done, need testing
  • History of edits done, need testing
  • Usernames & emails -> use the standard import at tiki-adminusers.php

Parsers & converters:

Guides for new users

Below will be guides about how to get accustomed to TikiWiki when you are coming from the MediaWiki world.

Guide for MediaWiki users

What is different and what are the equivalents?

Guide for MediaWiki programmers

What is different and what are the equivalents?

See: http://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/MediaWiki+TikiWiki

    • MediaWiki Syntax extension -> TikiWiki plugins
    • MediaWiki Special Pages -> TikiWiki plugins?
    • MediaWiki Behavior extensions -> ?
    • MediaWiki Skin -> Smarty Template engine

Guide for MediaWiki theme designers

What is different and what are the equivalents?

Tiki can already look like WikiPedia: http://themes.tikiwiki.org/Tikipedia

Looking for Beta testers

We are looking for Beta testers to test the import script and provide feedback during the January 5th & 6th CodeFest. Please indicate your name, and optionally, the site you are converting.

http://www.wikimatrix.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=1755#p1755

Other scripts

http://www.ohloh.net/p/wikipipes http://www.ohloh.net/p/wikisync

Contributors to this page: Marc Laporte2679 points  and xavi1688 points  .
Page last modified on Sunday 05 July, 2009 13:54:59 UTC by Marc Laporte2679 points .

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The following is a list of keywords that should serve as hubs for navigation within the Tiki development and should correspond to documentation keywords.

Each feature in Tiki has a wiki page which regroups all the bugs, requests for enhancements, etc. It is somewhat a form of wiki-based project management. You can also express your interest in a feature by adding it to your profile. You can also try out the Dynamic filter.

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