This page is intended to document the development of the GSOC 2009 project "phpBB and MediaWiki-TikiWiki importer". Ideas and suggestions are welcome!
If you are looking for instructions on how to use the importer please see Mediawiki importer
You can download here the application sent to GSOC 2009 and you can view here my project page on GSOC site.
Student: Rodrigo Sampaio Primo (rodrigosprimo (at) gmail (dot) com)
Mentor: Nelson Ko
Project: phpBB and MediaWiki-TikiWiki importer
Abstract: I'm a big fan of TikiWiki and I think that a phpBB and MediaWiki importer to Tiki might be a good feature to incentive more people to join the community. My plan is to create an importer interface with native support to phpBB and MediaWiki. The importer should be as generic as possible, so it will be easier to develop support for other softwares in the future. If I'm able to finish the project before the deadline I'm interested in developing the importers from other wiki based softwares to Tiki.
The script might work with other versions but it is tested with the following versions of each software:
The expected results are:
A list of MediaWiki information that we want to be able to import to TikiWiki.
| Period | Sumary |
| 1st week | 1) Decision to start with the MediaWiki importer and leave phpBB to a second phase 2) comparative table between MediaWiki and TikiWiki syntax 3) Initial study of the older import scripts |
| 2nd week | 1) Research of the MediaWiki export formats to choose which one is the best to use in the importer 2) Evaluation of older import scripts to define if we are going to reuse some parts of then 3) Text_Wiki will be used as a base for the MediaWiki importer 4) Ideas for a XML Interchange Format 5) Importer planning game |
| 3rd week | 1) Study of Text_Wiki and first simple contributions (1, 2, 3) 2) Read relevant parts of PEAR manual |
| 4th week | 1) Writing tests for the packages Text_Wiki, Text_Wiki_Tiki and Text_Wiki_Mediawiki 2) While writing the tests a few bugs have been fixed or reported: 1, 2, 3 |
| 5th week | 1) Started coding the importer interface for TikiWiki based on the planning game |
| 6th week | 1) GSOC TikiFest in London 2) Decision to remove the phpBB importer from the scope of this GSOC project |
| 7th week | 1) Still coding the importer interface for TikiWiki based on the planning game. I wrote tests for the code I have written in the 5th week and included a feedback for the user showing the stats after the importation |
| 8th week | 1) Added to the user interface of the Tiki Importer feedback during the importation and information about relevant PHP settings 2) Added Mediawiki parser and Tiki render for redirect rule to Text_Wiki 3) Fixing and adding code to Text_Wiki_Mediawiki and Text_Wiki_Tiki and updating the comparative table between MediaWiki and TikiWiki syntax |
| 9th week | 1) Tiki Importer handle Text_Wiki errors when parsing the wiki page syntax 2) Continuing the work from last week based on the comparative table between MediaWiki and TikiWiki syntax 3) Fixed Text_Wiki_Mediawiki bug 16455 related with parsing italic and bold |
| 10th week | 1) Support for wiki attachments 2) Start of the TikiFest Barcelona |
| 11th week | 1) Mediawiki extension to export users 2) Organizing all Tiki unit tests in a single directory (lib/test on trunk) 3) Improving the performance of the importer script by only parsing the revisions that are going to be imported 4) Testing the importer with a real Mediawiki XML file (from one old Jonny's site) 5) Bug reported on the Tikiwiki parser 6) Add an option to Tikiwiki import users to force user change password on first login |
| 12th week | 1) New release of PEAR packages Text_Wiki_Tiki and Text_Wiki_Mediawiki 2) User documentation for the importer: Mediawiki Importer |