1 [[!meta date="2008-10-20 16:55:39 -0400"]]
3 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.
5 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).
7 The MoinMoin side of things was completely re-written by [[anarcat]] and is currently still in development. That version is available at:
9 git clone git://git.koumbit.net/moin2iki.git
11 It doesn't feature support to migrate from Tikiwiki anymore and focuses on MoinMoin support.
13 Issues can be filed in the redmine bugtracker: <https://redmine.koumbit.net/projects/moin2iki>
19 Usage instructions are in the `README` file.
21 ## MoinMoin importer features
23 * supports latest MoinMoin versions (tested with 1.9.x)
24 * uses `git fast-import` to improve performance (10 minutes and 200M of ram for a 7 years old 2GB Moinmoin wiki)
25 * multistep process allows bulk edit through git before markdown conversion, or staying with a
26 * imports attachments as subpages
27 * uses the per-page edit log
28 * consistent: multiple runs will generate the same repository
29 * re-entrant: can be run multiple times to import new changes
31 ## MoinMoin converter features
33 * most of the inline markup
37 * images (not well tested), into [[ikiwiki/directive/img]]
38 * preformatted and code areas, including [[ikiwiki/directive/format]]
39 * ordered, unordered and definition lists
40 * tables (although only with HTML and no styles)
44 * TableOfContents, through [[ikiwiki/directive/toc]]
45 * Navigation, through [[ikiwiki/directive/map]] (so as a nested
46 vertical list instead of an horizontal list)
47 * PageList, through [[ikiwiki/directive/map]]
48 * MonthCalendar, partially, through [[ikiwiki/directive/calendar]]
49 * FootNote, through markdown
50 * Anchor, through markdown and plain HTML
51 * `<<BR>>`, through the weird line ending thing
52 * AttachList, through a weird [[ikiwiki/directive/inline]]
53 * FullSearch, partially, only through [[ikiwiki/directive/inline]] (so no textual search)
54 * Include, partially through [[ikiwiki/directive/inline]] (so missing boundary extraction and heading level generation)
55 * PageCount, same name even :)
56 * OrphanedPages, through [[ikiwiki/directive/orphans]]
57 * Date and Datetime, should be through [[plugins/date]] instead of
62 * the main "moin wiki" markup
63 * highlight parser, through the [[plugins/format]] plugin
64 * other parsers may be supported if an equivalent plugin exists in Ikiwiki (example: [[plugins/rst]])
68 This script is being used to test the conversion of the venerable [Koumbit wiki](https://wiki.koumbit.net/) into Ikiwiki, and so far progress is steady but difficult. The current blocker is:
70 * figuring out exactly which pages should exist and which should not, as there is ambiguity in the internal datastructures of MoinMoin, which become apparent when running the conversion script, as files a missing
74 There are also significant pieces missing:
76 * inline parsers and hackish styled tables
77 * turn categories into tags
78 * name converted page to the right name depending on the `#format` parameter on top of page
79 * finish a full converter run on the Koumbitwiki
80 * improve the output of the converter (too much debugging)
82 ## MoinMoin features missing from ikiwiki
84 The importer is pretty much complete, but the converter can only go so far as what features ikiwiki supports. Here are the MoinMoin features that are known to be missing from ikiwiki. Note that some of those features are available in MoinMoin only through third-party extensions.
86 * [[todo/do_not_make_links_backwards/]] - MoinMoin and Creole use `\[[link|text]]`, while ikiwiki uses `\[[text|link]]` - for now the converter generates [[markdown]] links so this is not so much an issue, but will freak out users
87 * [[todo/internal_definition_list_support/]] - includes tabling the results ([MoinMoin's DictColumns macro](http://moinmo.in/MacroMarket/DictColumns))
88 * [[todo/per page ACLs]] - ([MoinMoin's ACLs](http://moinmo.in/HelpOnAccessControlLists))
89 * [MailTo](http://moinmo.in/HelpOnMacros/MailTo) macro spam protection
90 * list pages based on full text page search
91 * extract part of other pages with the inline macro
92 * specifying a template when creating a page (as opposed to matching a pagespec)
93 * specifying a style for a sub-section (MoinMoin's inline parsers
94 allow the user to specify a CSS class - very useful see
95 [the documentation](http://moinmo.in/HelpOnMoinWikiSyntax#Using_the_wiki_parser_with_css_classes)
97 * the above also keeps the SectionParser from being properly supported
98 * regex matching all over the place: pagespec, basically, but all
99 full text search (which is missing anyways, see above)
103 * RandomPage(N) - lists N random pages, skipped
104 * Gallery() - skipped
105 * Gettext - translates the string accordign to internal translation
107 * AdvancedSearch - an elaborate search form provided by MoinMoin
108 * Goto - a simple "jump to page" macro
110 Comments and feedback always welcome! --[[anarcat]]