Arturo Bernal created JSPWIKI-1316:
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Summary: Add tools to import pages from other wikis and to export
the wiki
Key: JSPWIKI-1316
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSPWIKI-1316
Project: JSPWiki
Issue Type: New Feature
Reporter: Arturo Bernal
This is a proposal for discussion, not an implementation. A common reason not
to adopt a wiki is the cost of moving the existing content in, and of getting
it out again.
What exists today: I did not find an import tool, or a way to export pages to
formats such as static HTML, PDF or Markdown, among the plugins in jspwiki-main
or in the other modules of the repository. The page providers keep pages as
text files in the default configuration, so content can be copied by hand, but
nothing converts it. The search for existing issues on import, export and
migration found no open ticket for this.
Proposal, import: a command line or admin page tool that reads a Markdown
directory tree, and a MediaWiki or Confluence export, and creates pages and
attachments, converting the markup to the configured syntax and keeping page
names, links and history where the source has them. Proposal, export: a way to
export a page, a set of pages or the whole wiki as static HTML or as a Markdown
tree, which also helps backup and migration away. Open questions: which sources
matter most, whether this belongs in jspwiki-main or in a separate module, and
whether an existing converter library with an Apache compatible licence can be
used instead of writing parsers.
To be discussed on [[email protected]|mailto:[email protected]]
before any code is written.
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