27 Aug
2013
27 Aug
'13
5:23 p.m.
Hi, Jason
Export-import is a solution, BUT most possible it won't solve the problem: all access
rights won't be copied as desired.
Probably it would be better to split 4K pages into per-project (or else) basis and do it
one by one. Otherwise it would be a big mess with access rights.
I had a bit similar migration in a near past with a complex access rights system. Customer
had 5 (!) sources of information we had to combine in one knowledgebase. One of them it
was XWiki 2.5.
First of all, we described a FULL infrastructure of existing and desired knowledgebase
with all employees/clients roles, user groups and access rights. Then, according to
requirements we developed wiki structure.
Migration plan included the requirement, that we can't stop production at all.
So, finally, we moved every project one by one, setting up corresponding access rights.
Now it has 39+ subwikis (two of them are public) and 200+ users that are happy to use all
power of XWiki :-)
Thus, try to trace whole migration and probably, there are other solutions, then verbatim
DB export-import.
Kind regards,
Dmitry
Вторник, 27 августа 2013, 14:52 UTC от Jason Letanosky
<jletanosky(a)momentumtelecom.com>om>:
Hi Vincent,
Thanks for the fast response.
Here are some more details about the mindtouch export.
It appears that it can export pages as HTML, but is limited to about 100
pages and 150 mb - our installation is over 4000 pages, and the
attachments are much MUCH more than 150 mb. I was looking more towards a
db dump (mysql). We have AD integration setup and restrict certain pages
to certain AD groups - and would like to include that in the migration
(however, as long as xwiki can apply access restrictions to child pages,
then this wouldn't be too big of an issue to do manually).
I'll also reach out to one (or more) of the professional support groups.
Thanks again,
Jason Letanosky
On 8/27/13 9:35 AM, "Vincent Massol" < vincent(a)massol.net > wrote:
Hi Jason,
I don't know of any existing Mindtouch converter to XWiki. However there
are several handmade converter tools on http://extensions.xwiki.org that
could serve as examples.
What is the markup syntax used by Mindtouch? I have the feeling they only
provide HTML which would be fine since XWiki's Rendering can convert HTML
into wiki markup for example (or keep it as HTML too).
So converting a page would be:
* Read the export format from Mindtouch (what is it? XML?)
* Use the XWiki API to create a wiki page, convert the HTML content to
wiki markup (easy to do), add attachments
Also note that Thomas Mortagne (one of the XWiki committer) is currently
working on a wiki stream API that is an ideal scaffolding for
importing/exporting wikis:
https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/wiki-stream . But there's non trivial
dev work to be done to make it work.
Another idea is to contact one of the companies providing professional
services around XWiki and ask them how much it would cost for a
conversion:
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Support#HProfessionalSupport
Hope it helps,
-Vincent
On Aug 27, 2013, at 4:16 PM, Jason Letanosky
< jletanosky(a)momentumtelecom.com > wrote:
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http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users I'm looking to migrate away from mindtouch
(many reasons, not the least
of which is the abandoning of Core and going to a cloud only model) and
am considering XWiki (also TikiWiki and BlueSpice). Is it possible to
migrate an existing installation of mindtouch to xwiki? We have over
4000 pages and MANY file attachments, so a manual migration (manually
moving each page) would not be desirable. Any help or advice on
migrating would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Jason