[xwiki-users] Mediawiki to XWiki Migration - xwiki-users@xwiki.org

Vincent Massol

1 Jul 1 Jul

10:43 p.m.

Hi Mike,

On 01 Jul 2016, at 21:44, Polydectus84 <mike.m(a)telikin.com> wrote: Hello Everyone: I will soon be switching from Mediawiki to XWiki. XWiki has many features that we are interested in compared to Mediawiki.

Great stuff! I don’t know Mediawiki so well and I’d love to know more about the strengths that you see in XWiki when compared to MediaWiki (I’d like to prepare some comparison page for users on xwiki.org that compares XWiki with various other wikis and it would help a lot if you could share your thoughts on this).

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I just want to make sure that this is still the most up to date and recommended way to migrate Mediawiki data into a new XWiki installation: http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Import+MediaWiki+To+XW… I'd like to be familiar with the process prior to actually doing it. Thank you for your time.

There’s some new code being developed for importing from MediaWiki but it’s still young and has barely been released and probably has rough edges. But if you’re willing to try it out and play the guinea pig, it could be interesting for us to know how it fares. Let us know what you think and if you’re interested maybe Thomas could provide some more information (since he’s developing that importer). Thanks -Vincent PS: If you’re willing to go the easy path and want to have someone do that conversion for you, you should also know that the XWiki SAS company (http://xwiki.com, it’s the company that is the main sponsor of the development of the xwiki open source project) has lots of experience in converting from MediaWiki to XWiki, and they offer this service. They can be contacted at http://www.xwiki.com/en/company/contact-us

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Thomas Mortagne

4 Jul 4 Jul

7:29 p.m.

Hi, As Vincent indicated I started working on a standard MediaWiki importer. It's still young but seems to work very well already. See a quick documentation on how to use it on http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/MediaWiki/MediaWiki+XM…. If you encounter bugs please report them on http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/MEDIAWIKI. On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 10:47 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:

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On 01 Jul 2016, at 22:43, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote: Hi Mike,

On 01 Jul 2016, at 21:44, Polydectus84 <mike.m(a)telikin.com> wrote: Hello Everyone: I will soon be switching from Mediawiki to XWiki. XWiki has many features that we are interested in compared to Mediawiki.

Great stuff! I don’t know Mediawiki so well and I’d love to know more about the strengths that you see in XWiki when compared to MediaWiki (I’d like to prepare some comparison page for users on xwiki.org that compares XWiki with various other wikis and it would help a lot if you could share your thoughts on this).

I just want to make sure that this is still the most up to date and recommended way to migrate Mediawiki data into a new XWiki installation: http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Import+MediaWiki+To+XW… I'd like to be familiar with the process prior to actually doing it. Thank you for your time.

There’s some new code being developed for importing from MediaWiki but it’s still young and has barely been released and probably has rough edges. But if you’re willing to try it out and play the guinea pig, it could be interesting for us to know how it fares. Let us know what you think and if you’re interested maybe Thomas could provide some more information (since he’s developing that importer). Thanks -Vincent PS: If you’re willing to go the easy path and want to have someone do that conversion for you, you should also know that the XWiki SAS company (http://xwiki.com, it’s the company that is the main sponsor of the development of the xwiki open source project) has lots of experience in converting from MediaWiki to XWiki, and they offer this service. They can be contacted at http://www.xwiki.com/en/company/contact-us

FYI, found that xwiki.com has a page with some more details: http://www.xwiki.com/en/services/data-import Thanks -Vincent

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Thomas Mortagne

2 Aug 2 Aug

10:58 a.m.

You probably have an error but don't see it because of http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-12753. The log of a conversion is stored in the permanent dir, search a status.xml in a subfolder of jobs/status/filter/converter/ (depend of the properties you chose). If you are on XWiki 7.4.x or more replacing the xwiki-platform-filter-script jar in /WEB-INF/lib/ by the last one on http://maven.xwiki.org/snapshots/org/xwiki/platform/xwiki-platform-filter-s… might fix the UI for you (i.e. keep displaying the last conversion status when the conversion has failed). On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 9:30 PM, treed593 <trevor.reed(a)ge.com> wrote:

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When trying to import a Mediawiki XML file I see Conversion started.but no output and dont see the converted pages. Please advise. -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/Mediawiki-to-XWiki-Migration-tp7600210p76… Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users

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