Ticket Ticket #1266

Import pages from Mediawiki sites
Status Closed Importance 1 Vote Down Vote Up
Assigned to Mike McMurray Reporter anonymous
Project Kisimi Version 20090412
Component php Milestone
Severity Minor Type Enhancement
Created 22 months ago Last Change 3 months ago
Cc none Related Tickets none
Tags Tag mediawiki Tag wikipedia Tag import

Nice feature would be to allow a certain level of users to import pages from Mediawiki aka Wikipedia. There is a Dokuwiki script half completed on the web that does some conversion. More work is needed to import and convert as much as possible.

Need to import and manipulate at least these,

  • title
  • text content
  • last editor
  • creation/edit time from Mediawiki
  • convert all links, images, references, tables in an appropriate way.

And need to set some attributes within Kisimi to identify that this page has been imported. Credit needs to be made and a link to the original page.

  • table field to identify the source, import date and import user

Options for the import should be answered to ensure,

  • correct Category (Mediawiki does not use categories)
  • link creation as internal Mediawiki links should perhaps still link to that site
  • import images or link to the originals?
History Edit Properties
Updated by user Mike McMurray @ Nov 3 2008, 15:16
  • developer changed to mike
  • component changed to php
  • status changed from New to In Progress
Updated by user Mike McMurray @ Jun 21 2009, 20:15
  • version changed to 0.4
Updated by user Mike McMurray @ Jul 5 2009, 16:31
  • status changed from In Progress to Closed

Closing this request for three reasons,

  1. it’s very difficult to translate between markup languages and Mediawiki has a lot of extra syntax that do not translate.
  2. importing from another mediawiki sites is blocked in some cases due to abuse. Wikipedia has blocked export tests I have run on a number of cases.
  3. Copy and paste will get people 90% of the way there for content. Kisimi will have it’s own export to XML function available.
Updated by user Mike McMurray @ Jun 11 2010, 15:02
  • version changed to 20090412
  • milestone information removed.
  • status changed from In Progress to Closed

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Ticket #1266 is Closed and can only be edited by members of the Kisimi project's development team.