Question

How do I migrate the data off of a Zwiki server to a Twiki server?

• TWiki version:
• Web server:
• Server OS: Solaris 2.7
• Web browser: Netscape 4.7x
• Client OS: Solaris 2.8

-- ChrisKacerguis - 09 Jul 2002

Answer

Not sure, but have a look at these pages for some ideas on migration from other Wikis to TWiki - if Zwiki uses the ZODB database to store its pages you would need to extract the raw pages into flat files first.

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-- RichardDonkin - 09 Jul 2002

Check out Plugins.DolphinToTWikiAddOn in case you are a Perl programmer, you could it as a base for your converter. The tricky part is to first read a ZODB into a Perl variable or object. Check if you find anything in CPAN.

-- PeterThoeny - 23 Jul 2002

I've written a perl script that does the conversion. You first export the zwiki folder to XML (in the management interface) and the script converts the XML to twiki pages. E-mail if you are interested rscanon at hotmail dot com.

-- TWikiGuest - 23 Apr 2004

Dear guest, thanks for the offer. The community would appreciate if you could package this as an add-on and make it available in AddOnPackage, e.g. as an ZwikiToTWikiAddOn.

See also related GenericWikiToTWikiAddOn and KwikiToTWikiAddOn.

-- PeterThoeny - 24 Apr 2004

I've a method for migrating just the latest version of each page.

Inside the zwiki site, create a python script (using the management interface) like so:

items = context.objectValues(['ZWiki Page'])
for wikipage in items:
   print '-----------------------------------------------------------'
   print wikipage.Title()
   print '----'
   print wikipage.raw
return printed

Then run the script (by clicking "Test" in the management interface) and download the result to a file.

Then save the following python to a file in the same dir as the file you downloaded.

#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
import os
f = file(sys.argv[1])
data = f.read().strip()
stuff = data.split("-----------------------------------------------------------")
bits = []
for bit in stuff:
   bits.append(bit.split("\n----\n"))
try:
   os.mkdir('zwiki')
except:
   pass
for bit in bits:
   try:
      f1 = file(os.path.join('zwiki',bit[0].strip()),'wb')
   except:
      continue
   f1.write(bit[1].strip())
   f1.close()

Now run it: python zwiki-split.py download-file.txt

It will create a zwiki dir with a bunch of files which you can import to twiki. The import step and the inevitable cleanup of the resulting pages are manual at this stage.

-- PaulWise - 02 Feb 2005

Thanks Paul for sharing. I created ZwikiToTWikiAddOn with your info. If you have an improved version replace that topic.

-- PeterThoeny - 03 Feb 2005