X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/e40a29143a1724c5c023ca4639efcac155760c9e..795f7af7e6d7eb48002f6cd5e62af9e18f98be88:/doc/tips/convert_MoinMoin_to_ikiwiki.mdwn diff --git a/doc/tips/convert_MoinMoin_to_ikiwiki.mdwn b/doc/tips/convert_MoinMoin_to_ikiwiki.mdwn index 50ac2fe20..ead95678c 100644 --- a/doc/tips/convert_MoinMoin_to_ikiwiki.mdwn +++ b/doc/tips/convert_MoinMoin_to_ikiwiki.mdwn @@ -1,17 +1,14 @@ -A MoinMoin and TWiki converter, which was originally written by [[JoshTriplett]] converts those wikis to ikiwikis backed by a git repository, including full history. It uses two techniques for conversion: +This MoinMoin converter converts wikis to ikiwikis backed by a git repository, including full history. It simply parses the wiki pages into markdown using the MoinMoin engine. - * for MoinMoin, it parses the wiki pages into markdown using the MoinMoin engine - * for Tikiwiki, it parses the wiki pages to HTML then back into markdown using the `libhtml-wikiconverter` Perl package +The converter was originally written by [[JoshTriplett]] and included support for Tikiwiki, for which it parses the wiki pages to HTML then back into markdown using the `libhtml-wikiconverter` Perl package. That original version from Josh is still available from [his wiki page](/users/JoshTriplett). The MoinMoin side of things was completely re-written by [[anarcat]] and is currently still in development. That version is available at: git clone git://src.anarcat.ath.cx/moin2iki -The original version from Josh is still available from [his wiki page](/users/JoshTriplett). [[anarcat]] will probably remove support from Tikiwiki eventually, as those two projects are really different... +It doesn't feature support to migrate from Tikiwiki anymore and focuses on MoinMoin support. -# MoinMoin scripts - -The MoinMoin part is made of two main pieces: +The software is made of two pieces: * the importer (`moin2git`) - which converts the wiki pages into a git repository with full history * the converter (`moin2mdwn`) - which converts a set of moin-formatted text files into markdown + ikiwiki directives @@ -28,7 +25,6 @@ The MoinMoin part is made of two main pieces: ## MoinMoin converter features - * lots of macros are not translated * a bunch of markup and exotic uses of parsers will probably fail?