[pmwiki-users] is it possible to convert a UseMod wiki to pmwiki?

Jeff Henry jbhenry at gmail.com
Tue Jan 25 08:11:57 CST 2005


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:27:33 -0600, Patrick R. Michaud
<pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 01:58:14PM -0500, Gautam H. Thaker wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> > I have an existing UseMod wiki. It is not too large, but manual recreation
> > of it under pmwiki would still take a few days. Is it possible to somehow
> > use UseMod wiki database under pmwiki (after some mostly mechanical
> > conversion if needed)?
> 
> Sure, it shouldn't be hard to do.  Is there a way I can get a copy of
> a UseMod wiki database to play with?  How does UseMod store its pages --
> as flat files or in a MySQL table or...?
> 
> Also, how do you want to handle the difference in naming conventions?
> UseMod has "subpages", while PmWiki has groups -- and while they serve
> similar purposes they're different enough to be challenging to convert.
> (Unless, of course, your site doesn't have any subpages, in which case
> we can just put all of the pages into one WikiGroup and be done with it.)
> 
> I'll be very happy to write up a UseMod -> PmWiki converter, if there
> are people who can help me test and debug it.
> 
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I would also be interested in a UseMod -> PmWiki converter, and am
willing to help with testing and debugging.

UseMod uses a series of flat files to store its data. There's a
description of the format here:
http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DataBase

I can provide copies of files from my UseMod for testing, if needed.

-- 
Jeff Henry



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