634410 - Quick Investigation of SuMoMo tiki wiki export of KB article text, images and comments

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(support.mozillamessaging.com Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Roland Tanglao needinfo please :rolandtanglao, :mohnkuchen, :adobo, :sinigang, :roland]

The SuMo devs said that writing a comprehensive end to end all singing and dancing import script would be too complicated and frail based on their Firefox tiki wiki to Kitsune KB conversion experience.

So they recommended doing the tiki wiki export and import into Kitsune KB by hand.

Therefore, :sancus please investigate how difficult it would be to export SuMoMo tiki wiki KB article text, KB article images and KB article comments to flat text files from the tiki wiki MySQL database.

The plan then would be to write a simple regex script (or a editor multi-file regex search and replace script) to handle 90% of the tiki->kitsune KB markup conversion automatically and then proofread by hand to do the last 10% of the conversion.

Comment 1

[jenzed]

Please also investigate whether it would be possible / feasible to import the converted articles from a text file to kitsune.

Comment 2

[Roland Tanglao needinfo please :rolandtanglao, :mohnkuchen, :adobo, :sinigang, :roland]

:sancus has done initial investigation and prelim results:
1) quick and dirty script to export article text to text file is no problem, bug 634657
2) images are #2 priority after article text, sancus to do nothing until roland gets images from gozer
3) in the process of writing 1) he'll see how difficult quick and dirty comment export script is

Comment 3

[Andrei [:sancus]]

#1 is solved (articles)
#2 is possible but needs a script that I have to write(images)
#3 should be spawned into its own bug at a low priority, as I don't have time to worry about comments at this time.