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Convert from SnipSnap to Tikiwiki

posts: 3 United States

Hello All,

We want to convert from a wiki/weblog tool called called SnipSnap (http://snipsnap.org) to Tikiwiki. Snipsnap is feature poor compared to Tikiwiki, however we have well over 600 pages of documentation that need to be converted.

I'm looking for documentation on the following topics. I've poked around the Tikiwiki documentation and site, but have not really found what I'm seeking. Any links or hints would be very helpful.

  • How to import data into Tikiwiki, i.e. what programs or pages to visit
  • What import formats are supported by Tikiwiki


I'm going to write XSLT and Python scripts to convert an exported XML file from SnipSnap into all the relavent input formats for Tikiwiki, but I'm not finding a definitive starting point in the Tikiwiki documentation or wiki site. I will be converting the following objects.

  • Wiki Pages
  • Web Log Entries
  • Uploaded Image Files


As a shot in the dark, has anybody convered from Snipsnap to Tikiwiki

Any direction would help.

posts: 2881 United Kingdom

Until now I dont believe many people have imported into TikiWiki. Well certainly no one seems to shout about it.

There is/was a phpWiki (another wiki engine) importer, but I doubt its been maintained and kept upto date with the recent changes in our wiki area.

We have a XMLRPC received wiki pages, and you can also import wiki pages through the mailin interface, simply sending each wiki page to a email address connected to the wiki mailin feature.

Personally if I was doing the job, Id take the exported file and write a command line based PHP script to import the pages into TikiWiki. That way you can easily use the wikilib and tikilib methods. Shouldnt be too hard to accomplish with knowledge of the Tiki code. But thats another story, our developer documentation is our code.

If your new to Tiki, you might want to seek out a TikiWiki Expert through FindTikiExpert and throw some $$$ there way to get the job done.

Its certainly possible tho.

Damian


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