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By Roekemoes on
Hello everyone,
Is there anyway to convert a wiki system to Drupal because I haven't found any after a day of searching. Our wikisystem can export to plain text, HTML and PDF. The thing we want to do is import the exported HTML pages and keep the links intact. We don't mind to along other routes like converting to something else first. All the converters we found either didn't preserve links or weren't compatible with Drupal 6.x.
Any help or push in the right direction is greatly appreciated!
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I'm also interested in this.
My first thought was to implement (or extend an existing) input filter for the PmWiki markup language (if not already available), so that the original markup can be reused without the conversion troubles.
Converting/preserving links is indeed a tricky problem, but less interesting for my use case.
Syntax?
How much of the content is in PmWiki-specific markup? The basic camelCase/wikilink functionality (and only this functionality) can be handled by http://drupal.org/project/freelinking .
There are a few different filters for other Wiki languages; unfortunately, all of these projects are essentially unmaintained.
http://drupal.org/project/pearwiki_filter
http://drupal.org/project/mediawiki_api
http://drupal.org/project/flexifilter
Are you just looking to convert content, or do you want to preserve wiki-like behavior? The latter requires assembling a variety of different modules and plugging them together, which is not always straightforward (see http://groups.drupal.org/wiki ). Such modules include
http://drupal.org/project/wikitools
http://drupal.org/project/talk
http://drupal.org/project/diff
http://drupal.org/project/pathauto
http://drupal.org/project/edit_section
http://drupal.org/project/tableofcontents
http://drupal.org/project/interwiki