Feedback on MediaWikiToTWikiAddOn

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Made a first release.

-- MichaelDaum - 15 Nov 2007

Excellent, thank you very much for all the contributions! Micha rocks!

-- PeterThoeny - 16 Nov 2007

Some guys in my company created mang pages the names of which are like "How:Do:You:Do", "How:Are:You". When converting these pages, I got a "DoYouDo" page and a "AreYou" page in the "How" sub web. So I got many subwebs like "How". But in fact we don't have so many namespaces in MediaWiki. It seems the addon mistook part of a page name for a namespace. Is there any way I can get it work correctly? Thanks!

-- LijiYu - 27 Dec 2007

The colon is the separator for namespaces in MediaWiki. This is mapped to webs and subwebs converting the content to TWiki by default. So using colons in the name of a MediaWiki page was quite bad in the first place. Anyway. You can correct this error while converting the data by implementing a plugin for the conversion tool. See the Empty.pm example plugin (in the lib/TWiki/Contrib/MediaWikiToTWikiAddOn/ directory). The handler that you need to implement is called handleTitle(). It takes a page object and returns a webname,topicname tuple.

-- MichaelDaum - 27 Dec 2007

I tried. It works! Thanks a lot.

-- LijiYu - 29 Dec 2007

-- MichaelDaum - 29 Dec 2007

Hello

There are some dependencies

Can't locate Unicode/MapUTF8.pm in @INC

-- PeterJones - 25 Feb 2008

There's a bit of a problem on FreeBSD. It seems the GNU 'du' has a '-b' option whereas the FreeBSD 'du' does not and throws a lot of "du: illegal option -- b" warnings. Adding GNU coreutils and editing Converter.pm to use gdu fixes problem.

-- LarryDillon - 01 Aug 2008

Images previously displayed in-line come in as attachments, but the in-line image tags seem to be in the MediaWiki format, versus being converted to TWiki format. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a fix for this?

-- LarryDillon - 14 Aug 2008

Thanks for the great plugin! Works great, I combined the MediaWikiTablePlugin to support the tables and the ImagePlugin to support the %IMAGE% tag for in-line images.

-- EdwardMoscardini - 15 Dec 2008