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Rating -2-1012(4)Help
Ticket ID 1220
Subject MediaWiki import script
Submitted by marclaporte
Priority 7
Category Community projects
Feature request
Tiki Version 1.9.x
Feature Installer (profiles, upgrades and server-related issues)
Wiki (history, page rename, etc)
Wiki Syntax (text area, parser, external wiki, etc)
Description For many people, Wikipedia (powered by MediaWiki) was their first contact with wikis. MediaWiki has a very nice interface and has done an amazing job to get Wikis known to the public, via Wikipedia. MediaWiki/Wikipedia is probably the best thing that happened to the Wiki world since Ward Cunningham invented the wiki in 1995.

MediaWiki is excellent to make an encyclopedia. However, it is not designed to be an Intranet/corporate wiki with an advanced permission system. Also, MediaWiki is "only" a wiki. It doesn't have extra features like forums, trackers, blogs, etc. Maybe these features will eventually be added to Mediawiki, but it doesn't seem imminent.

Users which want more can use some glueware to combine a Wiki and an existing full featured CMS (ex.: Drupal + MediaWiki or Xoops + MediaWiki) or they can choose Tiki Wiki/CMS/Groupware.

There are apparently millions of MediaWiki installs. In contrast, there are "only" tens of thousands installs of TikiWiki. While this number is very good, we can expect more & more people will want to migrate from MediaWiki to TikiWiki. Even if a small proportion of MediaWiki installs migrated to Tiki, it would still be a very large influx of users.

Tiki can already look like WikiPedia:
http://themes.tikiwiki.org/Tikipedia (external link)

One important step for Tiki's future is to have a converter from MediaWiki to TikiWiki so users can have a painless upgrade path and gain access to more features.

http://dev.tikiwiki.org/MediaWiki+to+TikiWiki+converter (external link)

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Resolution status (legacy) Fixed
Lastmod by marclaporte
Created Monday 16 July, 2007 23:31:54 UTC
LastModif Friday 15 January, 2010 04:38:20 UTC
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Native in Tiki4 by marclaporte31748 points 
posted on: 15 Jan. 10 04:37 UTC
just point your browser to tiki-importer.php
Congratulations, Marc! by xavi1299 points 
posted on: 07 Dec. 07 08:50 UTC
Congratulations, Marc, for:
{QUOTE()}
CodeFest2008 by marclaporte
posted on: Fri 07 of Dec, 2007 [03:03]
http://wiki.facil.qc.ca/CodeFest2008

Saturday & Sunday 5 & 6th January 2007 -> We will be writing a MediaWiki to TikiWiki convertor
{QUOTE}
CodeFest2008 by marclaporte31748 points 
posted on: 07 Dec. 07 02:03 UTC
http://wiki.facil.qc.ca/CodeFest2008

Saturday & Sunday 5 & 6th January 2007 -> We will be writing a MediaWiki to TikiWiki convertor
How XWiki does it by marclaporte31748 points 
posted on: 04 Nov. 07 17:48 UTC
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Code/MediaWiki2XWiki
by lihaowei200814 points 
posted on: 08 Sep. 07 08:26 UTC
Do really agree with this.Look forward to the convertor of tiki
A online converter by marclaporte31748 points 
posted on: 06 Sep. 07 22:38 UTC
from html to wiki:
http://diberri.dyndns.org/wikipedia/html2wiki/
2007-07-18 on IRC by marclaporte31748 points 
posted on: 14 Aug. 07 22:55 UTC
Please see: [http://dev.tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=2007-07-18+IRC+MediaWiki+discussion]
2007-07-27 on IRC by marclaporte31748 points 
posted on: 28 July 07 21:41 UTC
(4:45:37 PM) marclaporte: hoppel_: any news on mediawiki convertor?
(4:46:52 PM) hoppel_: no, i will need to play somewhat with tiki first to understand it's syntax
(4:47:44 PM) hoppel_: maybe i will have some time for it the next two weeks
(4:48:25 PM) marclaporte: hoppel_: do you like beer?
(4:48:41 PM) hoppel_: what a question ;p
(4:48:55 PM) hoppel_: yes^^
(4:49:57 PM) marclaporte: hoppel_: where do you live?
(4:50:09 PM) hoppel_: germany
(4:50:15 PM) marclaporte: and do they deliver beer in Germany?
(4:51:08 PM) hoppel_: hmm, good question, beer per mail^^
(4:51:41 PM) Kase1 left the room (quit: "Leaving.").
(4:52:40 PM) marclaporte: If you develop a working solution to a migration from mediawiki to tikiwiki and I can, online, have beer delivered, I will have a keg of beer delivered to your house or office
(4:53:04 PM) marclaporte: There are millions of mediawiki installs, and only tens of thousands of tikiwikis
(4:53:15 PM) marclaporte: This could double our community
(4:53:25 PM) marclaporte: certainly worth a keg of beer
(4:53:34 PM) hoppel_: i will look what i can do^^
(4:54:04 PM) hoppel_: i saw there seems to be an rpc interface to tiki?
(4:54:40 PM) marclaporte: yup
(4:54:56 PM) marclaporte: to send & receive wiki pages and articles between two tikis
(4:55:52 PM) hoppel_: so it should be possible to use this to import the data from mediawiki?
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