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. Thus, since Tiki4, there is a built-in importer. Please see: MediaWiki importer.
Please see:
- GSOC 2009: phpBB and MediaWiki-TikiWiki importer
- TikiWiki vs MediaWiki
- Nobody ever got fired for picking MediaWiki
- Related: MediaWiki to TikiWiki migration script
Background information
- Evan Prodromou, MediaWiki developer talks about MediaWiki
- 2007-07-18 IRC MediaWiki discussion
- MediaWiki import script tracker item
To test
Requires
- PHP5 with DOM extension.
- A MediaWiki data dump
- A working version of 2.0
Steps
- Get code and install Tiki 2.0
- Install the Text_Wiki libraries
- Use tiki-import_mwdump.php
- Please report issues here. (It's still pre-alpha state)
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:
- TikiWiki on CPAN
- PEAR:: Package :: Text_Wiki_Tiki Tiki parser and renderer for Text_Wiki
- HTML::WikiConverter
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.tiki.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.
Related links
http://www.wikimatrix.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=1755#p1755
Other scripts
http://www.ohloh.net/p/wikipipes
http://www.ohloh.net/p/wikisync