automating/assisting migration from mediawiki to confluence
Hi Guys, Sorry if I have missed this discussion already. I did look in the archives and couldn't see anything. I've been thinking of ways to migrate a page from the old format that is stored in confluence to the new format. Has anyone looked at tools to assist this? Initially I thought regexs could help but of course that doesn't work well for html. What about writing some scripts in perl perhaps? or a tool that is designed for manipulating html. Jason Jason Lewis http://emacstragic.net
Hi Jason, Seems possible at first look, but, there's a lot of details involved :/ We have a script that can translate the from old media wiki format to the new confluence, but: https://github.com/EvoluxBR/fs_docs_translator We need to create a new page on confluence, save, edit, click in view source and paste the converted code. It's easier to copy & paste directly the HTML from media wiki to the confluence editor, after small adjustments the content is ready. If you have an idea, please share with us :) On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Jason Lewis <jason@dickson.st> wrote:
Hi Guys,
Sorry if I have missed this discussion already. I did look in the archives and couldn't see anything.
I've been thinking of ways to migrate a page from the old format that is stored in confluence to the new format.
Has anyone looked at tools to assist this? Initially I thought regexs could help but of course that doesn't work well for html.
What about writing some scripts in perl perhaps? or a tool that is designed for manipulating html.
Jason
Jason Lewis http://emacstragic.net
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Hi Ítalo, I was looking at the mod_voicemail page as a typical page. https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/mod_voicemail If you look at the html on the confluence wiki, its pretty messy. eg each line is surrounded with a <p></p> tag pair. Do you think its more work to fix up a page scraped from mediawiki than to take the mw source and convert it to html using the script you linked to? I don't really have any fantastic ideas unfortunately. I realise its a hard problem and I just wanted to discuss with others to see what's been thought of. Ítalo Rossi wrote on 3/02/2015 1:06 PM:
Hi Jason,
Seems possible at first look, but, there's a lot of details involved :/
We have a script that can translate the from old media wiki format to the new confluence, but:
https://github.com/EvoluxBR/fs_docs_translator
We need to create a new page on confluence, save, edit, click in view source and paste the converted code.
It's easier to copy & paste directly the HTML from media wiki to the confluence editor, after small adjustments the content is ready.
If you have an idea, please share with us :)
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Jason Lewis <jason@dickson.st <mailto:jason@dickson.st>> wrote:
Hi Guys,
Sorry if I have missed this discussion already. I did look in the archives and couldn't see anything.
I've been thinking of ways to migrate a page from the old format that is stored in confluence to the new format.
Has anyone looked at tools to assist this? Initially I thought regexs could help but of course that doesn't work well for html.
What about writing some scripts in perl perhaps? or a tool that is designed for manipulating html.
Jason
Jason Lewis http://emacstragic.net
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There are actually mediawiki to confluence specific conversion tools, however they all suck... Tried this a few times a few different ways before we started down the manual conversion want... Not only is the manual way working better, its also catching old outdated information and striking it where needed in many places... Sure there is probably some of this old data making it thru, buts its a lot more controlled this way K On 2/2/15, 8:18 PM, "Jason Lewis" <jason@dickson.st> wrote:
Hi Ítalo,
I was looking at the mod_voicemail page as a typical page.
https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/mod_voicemail
If you look at the html on the confluence wiki, its pretty messy. eg each line is surrounded with a <p></p> tag pair.
Do you think its more work to fix up a page scraped from mediawiki than to take the mw source and convert it to html using the script you linked to?
I don't really have any fantastic ideas unfortunately. I realise its a hard problem and I just wanted to discuss with others to see what's been thought of.
Ítalo Rossi wrote on 3/02/2015 1:06 PM:
Hi Jason,
Seems possible at first look, but, there's a lot of details involved :/
We have a script that can translate the from old media wiki format to the new confluence, but:
https://github.com/EvoluxBR/fs_docs_translator
We need to create a new page on confluence, save, edit, click in view source and paste the converted code.
It's easier to copy & paste directly the HTML from media wiki to the confluence editor, after small adjustments the content is ready.
If you have an idea, please share with us :)
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Jason Lewis <jason@dickson.st> wrote:
Hi Guys,
Sorry if I have missed this discussion already. I did look in the archives and couldn't see anything.
I've been thinking of ways to migrate a page from the old format that is stored in confluence to the new format.
Has anyone looked at tools to assist this? Initially I thought regexs could help but of course that doesn't work well for html.
What about writing some scripts in perl perhaps? or a tool that is designed for manipulating html.
Jason
Jason Lewis http://emacstragic.net
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Ítalo Rossi
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Agreed! I could copy pages over manually at a rapid rate, except that I notice inaccuracies, links that require fixup, and other edits required so that one page consumes a good bit of my time editing. Meanwhile, the dozens of other pages that I had hoped to move over await attention on the old wiki. BUT the good part is that the page on Confluence is much closer to being acceptable after I get done with it. I am halfway through editing a couple huge pages on Confluence, but I am climbing out of computer hell here so I have been unable to much of anything recently; I hope to have that solved in a few weeks. There are so many details on each page that it truly requires manual attention as each page is copied over, its not just a pure copy and paste operation. Ideally we should be enlisting the help of people who have a favorite or specialty subject in FreeSWITCH and ask them to transfer the pages related to that topic. They are best suited to knowing what is right after all. Not every wiki page needs to be copied over either, a good number are being left for various reasons. We welcome any ideas or hard labor, too! Bote From: freeswitch-docs-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-docs-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Ken Rice Sent: Monday, 02 February, 2015 21:26 To: FreeSWITCH Docs Team Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-docs] automating/assisting migration from mediawiki to confluence There are actually mediawiki to confluence specific conversion tools, however they all suck... Tried this a few times a few different ways before we started down the manual conversion want... Not only is the manual way working better, its also catching old outdated information and striking it where needed in many places... Sure there is probably some of this old data making it thru, buts its a lot more controlled this way K On 2/2/15, 8:18 PM, "Jason Lewis" <jason@dickson.st> wrote: Hi Ítalo, I was looking at the mod_voicemail page as a typical page. https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/mod_voicemail If you look at the html on the confluence wiki, its pretty messy. eg each line is surrounded with a <p></p> tag pair. Do you think its more work to fix up a page scraped from mediawiki than to take the mw source and convert it to html using the script you linked to? I don't really have any fantastic ideas unfortunately. I realise its a hard problem and I just wanted to discuss with others to see what's been thought of. Ítalo Rossi wrote on 3/02/2015 1:06 PM: Hi Jason, Seems possible at first look, but, there's a lot of details involved :/ We have a script that can translate the from old media wiki format to the new confluence, but: https://github.com/EvoluxBR/fs_docs_translator We need to create a new page on confluence, save, edit, click in view source and paste the converted code. It's easier to copy & paste directly the HTML from media wiki to the confluence editor, after small adjustments the content is ready. If you have an idea, please share with us :) On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Jason Lewis <jason@dickson.st> wrote: Hi Guys, Sorry if I have missed this discussion already. I did look in the archives and couldn't see anything. I've been thinking of ways to migrate a page from the old format that is stored in confluence to the new format. Has anyone looked at tools to assist this? Initially I thought regexs could help but of course that doesn't work well for html. What about writing some scripts in perl perhaps? or a tool that is designed for manipulating html. Jason Jason Lewis http://emacstragic.net _______________________________________________ Freeswitch-docs mailing list Freeswitch-docs@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-docs -- Ítalo Rossi _______________________________________________ Freeswitch-docs mailing list Freeswitch-docs@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-docs -- Ken http://www.FreeSWITCH.org http://www.ClueCon.com http://www.OSTAG.org irc.freenode.net #freeswitch Twitter: @FreeSWITCH
Agreed! I could copy pages over manually at a rapid rate, except that I notice inaccuracies, links that require fixup, and other edits required so that one page consumes a good bit of my time editing. Meanwhile, the dozens of other pages that I had hoped to move over await attention on the old wiki. BUT the good part is that the page on Confluence is much closer to being acceptable after I get done with it. I am halfway through editing a couple huge pages on Confluence, but I am climbing out of computer hell here so I have been unable to much of anything recently; I hope to have that solved in a few weeks. There are so many details on each page that it truly requires manual attention as each page is copied over, its not just a pure copy and paste operation. Ideally we should be enlisting the help of people who have a favorite or specialty subject in FreeSWITCH and ask them to transfer the pages related to that topic. They are best suited to knowing what is right after all. Not every wiki page needs to be copied over either, a good number are being left for various reasons. We welcome any ideas or hard labor, too! Bote From: freeswitch-docs-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-docs-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Ken Rice Sent: Monday, 02 February, 2015 21:26 To: FreeSWITCH Docs Team Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-docs] automating/assisting migration from mediawiki to confluence There are actually mediawiki to confluence specific conversion tools, however they all suck... Tried this a few times a few different ways before we started down the manual conversion want... Not only is the manual way working better, its also catching old outdated information and striking it where needed in many places... Sure there is probably some of this old data making it thru, buts its a lot more controlled this way K On 2/2/15, 8:18 PM, "Jason Lewis" <jason@dickson.st> wrote: Hi Ítalo, I was looking at the mod_voicemail page as a typical page. https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/mod_voicemail If you look at the html on the confluence wiki, its pretty messy. eg each line is surrounded with a <p></p> tag pair. Do you think its more work to fix up a page scraped from mediawiki than to take the mw source and convert it to html using the script you linked to? I don't really have any fantastic ideas unfortunately. I realise its a hard problem and I just wanted to discuss with others to see what's been thought of. Ítalo Rossi wrote on 3/02/2015 1:06 PM: Hi Jason, Seems possible at first look, but, there's a lot of details involved :/ We have a script that can translate the from old media wiki format to the new confluence, but: https://github.com/EvoluxBR/fs_docs_translator We need to create a new page on confluence, save, edit, click in view source and paste the converted code. It's easier to copy & paste directly the HTML from media wiki to the confluence editor, after small adjustments the content is ready. If you have an idea, please share with us :) On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Jason Lewis <jason@dickson.st> wrote: Hi Guys, Sorry if I have missed this discussion already. I did look in the archives and couldn't see anything. I've been thinking of ways to migrate a page from the old format that is stored in confluence to the new format. Has anyone looked at tools to assist this? Initially I thought regexs could help but of course that doesn't work well for html. What about writing some scripts in perl perhaps? or a tool that is designed for manipulating html. Jason Jason Lewis http://emacstragic.net _______________________________________________ Freeswitch-docs mailing list Freeswitch-docs@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-docs -- Ítalo Rossi _______________________________________________ Freeswitch-docs mailing list Freeswitch-docs@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-docs -- Ken http://www.FreeSWITCH.org http://www.ClueCon.com http://www.OSTAG.org irc.freenode.net #freeswitch Twitter: @FreeSWITCH
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