> On 01 Jul 2016, at 22:43, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Mike, > >> On 01 Jul 2016, at 21:44, Polydectus84 <[email protected]> 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+XWiki >> >> 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 > View this message in context: > http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/Mediawiki-to-XWiki-Migration-tp7600210.html > _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
