discuss: wiki converter
Subject:
Re: [discuss] wiki converter
From:
"Robert Spencer" ####@####.####
Date:
20 Aug 2008 16:32:06 +0100
Message-Id: <8b8c4c740808200832o7760df42m8e0cafa987a66c3a@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 5:06 PM, jdd ####@####.#### wrote:
> to allow converting old HOWTOs to the wiki, may this tool can be of some use
>
> http://diberri.dyndns.org/wikipedia/html2wiki/index.html
That's a very bad idea, your going have to go behind it and fix up all
the errors.
This tools is using the old moin markup and wont work as expected in
the new wiki.
> it's far from perfect, but better than nothing :-( as long as we don't have
It's unfortunately worse than nothing, nothing is pasting the plain
text into the wiki which will give a reasonably quick clean base.
I also suggest everyone learns and uses wiki Creole, as that will
allow easy porting to most other wiki's:
http://wiki.tldp.org/HelpOnCreoleSyntax
> docbook converting
I'm still hoping someone will help with the conversion of some of the
doc's from SGML to XML.
--
Robert Spencer
