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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. Thus, since Tiki4, there is a built-in importer. Please see: MediaWiki importer.



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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.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

https://openhub.net/p/wikipipes
https://openhub.net/p/wikisync

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