Tiddlywiki to Mediawiki

[shanny]

Hi All,

I am a newbie and have been assigned with a task of uploading a bunch
load of tiddlywikis to the master Mediawiki website.

The idea is to release a particular section of the mediawiki as
tiddlywiki to the field agent and whenever a tiddlywiki is updated,
need to be update to the master mediawiki website.

So basically i need two way conversion -
from mediawiki to tiddlywiki
and from tiddlywiki to mediawiki

There are a few resources for extracting from mediawiki to tiddlywiki
(namely MediaWikiAdaptorPlugin and MediaWikiFormaterPlugin) which i
found in tiddlyvault.com

I also need the otherwise - from tiddlywiki back to mediawiki.

Could anyone help on this please.

Thanks

[FND]

> There are a few resources for extracting from mediawiki to tiddlywiki
> (namely MediaWikiAdaptorPlugin and MediaWikiFormaterPlugin) which i
> found in tiddlyvault.com
> I also need the otherwise - from tiddlywiki back to mediawiki.

The adaptor/sync mechanism works both ways:
http://tiddlywiki.org/wiki/Synchronization
There should be a list of tiddlers originating from your MediaWiki
instance (that's assuming you've selected "Keep these tiddlers linked to
this server" when importing), which allows you to push changes to the
server (provided the respective MediaWiki instances is configured to
accept edits via the API).

You might be interested in MediaWiki Unplugged:
http://mediawikiunplugged.com

-- F.

[Shanny]

Thanks FND,

mediawikiunplugged is absolutely great. Luv it.
This is apt for the ongoing check out and check back ins.

But now i got a list of old Tiddlywikis which needs to be uploaded to
Mediawiki.

Somewhere i read i need to convert the tiddlywiki to word and then use
a macro to rewrite it back to mediawiki.
But this macro doesn't works for Word2007.

What is the best way to do it.?

--S.

[Martin Budden]

Shanny,

were these old TiddlyWikis created from a mediawiki? That is, is the
format of the tiddlers mediawiki format, or tiddlywiki format?

If the format is TiddlyWiki, then I'm afraid there is not really an
easy way of doing this.

Martin

2009/6/12 Shanny <shan.p...@googlemail.com>:

[Shan Pooranam]

Hi Martin,

Unfortunately the TiddlyWikis are not of mediawiki origin. They were created and maintained as tiddlywikis. Now that we got a good number of them, we want to collate them and organize using the mediawiki.

So now that there is no easy way, could you think of any possible otherways of doing?

--S

 

[Eric Shulman]

Is there a way to embed an IFRAME in MediaWiki content? If so, then
you could just upload the TiddlyWiki files and then display them
online in MediaWiki pages that contain IFRAMEs that point to the
uploaded documents.

-e
Eric Shulman
TiddlyTools / ELS Design Studios

[Shan Pooranam]

Possibly Yes,

We have a few extensions that allow using a IFrame Tag to load external content.

My understanding is that they are not that much secure as they expose the user account details to the browser...just a thought that i have read this somewhere.

But possibly worth giving a try and see how far the stakes are.

If we take this path, then any future updation to the tiddler has to be done in the tiddlywiki format while it is still wrapped under the mediawiki IFrame tag.......need to explore a bit...

On the other hand, what about publishing the tiddlywiki content maybe using the snapshotplugin as html and using any html-to-mediawiki converter/formatter ? I tried the Send2Wiki to convert the html to mediawiki... but it is reluctant to upload a html file from local drive.

My idea and the requirement given was to convert the existing tiddlywikis once for all to mediawiki and link them to the other existing data and organize them. The mediawikiunplugged is an ideal candidate to extract the data from the mediawiki to the field agents and update them as required.......ideally :) 

--S

[Martin Budden]

How much data do you have to convert? If there is not too much, it
could be done manually: the syntax of mediawiki and tiddlywiki is not
that different, especially if you do not use markup.

An alternative would be to write a plugin that did most of the syntax
conversion and then manually check the rest. A conversion of the links
and character markup would probably give you most of what you need.

Martin

2009/6/15 Shan Pooranam <shan.p...@googlemail.com>: