Wiki Migration

[Peter Robinson]

On Dec 14, 2007 8:22 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
> Ok, I'm just throwing this out there for discussion.
>
> We would like to migrate from Moin to another wiki.
>
> We have yet to find any valid migration scripts that convert users,
> histories, etc.
>
> What would YOU say if we made the current wiki read only, and made the
> teams and people migrate important relevant content over to a blank wiki
> by hand (copy and paste)?
>
> I think this would also allow us to trim up the wiki a bit.  So the
> question I'm asking is if we decided to go this route.  How many of you
> would hate the Infrastructure group?

The X guys are looking at moving from Moin to MediaWiki. There's a
post about some conversion tools here =>
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-December/031007.html

Looks like to tools need a bit of work but as they say many hands make
light work so maybe some coders could help out that tool and save a
whole lot of pain for a number of people.

Pete