How can I migrate my site from Stack Exchange to Askbot?

Randell

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Apr 14, 2010, 10:29:03 AM4/14/10

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I'm currently evaluating SE clones so we can migrate our SE site,
NullPointer.ph to it.

Evgeny Fadeev

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Apr 14, 2010, 11:48:37 AM4/14/10

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Hey Randell,

Could you do me a fave - repost your question on http://askbot.org/meta?

I've decided to discontinue the newsgroup or at least stop using it for a while.

My real answer is below, but I want to post the answer on the meta site.

Your nullpointer.ph looks very nice and you

seem to have a good community based on the number of upvotes on the questions.

Cheers!

Evgeny.

Hey Randell,

nullpointer looks awesome! you also have a nice community

judging by the number of upvotes on the questions.

At the moment the steps are the following:

install askbot. instructions are within file INSTALL

make sure that "stackexchange" app is in the list of INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py

unzip you SE dump in some directory say ./dump

type

python manage.py load_stackexchange

The process may take some time - because the way import works is

by playing the user activity into the database. But the good part is that

in the end you get imported everything - all revisions, votes, etc.

The caveat is that for the testing I had only one dump to work with.

So there may be bugs - if you run into anything - please let me know and I'll fix it pronto.

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Randell <josephrande...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm currently evaluating SE clones so we can migrate our SE site,
NullPointer.ph to it.

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Evgeny

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Apr 14, 2010, 11:49:50 AM4/14/10

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Heya, please post your questions on the http://askbot.org/meta

sorry I should remove link to this newsgroup - decided to focus on
using the meta site - even for discussions.

Cheerios!!!

Evgeny.

Randell

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Apr 16, 2010, 9:37:20 AM4/16/10

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Hi Evgeny,

Thanks for the response. We're currently evaluating the SX clones. Our team decided to start with OSQA. I'll let you know if we're moving on to test askbot.

Cheers,
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Randell

Evgeny Fadeev

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Apr 16, 2010, 12:28:35 PM4/16/10

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Hi Randell,

No problems. You're welcome.

Evgeny.

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