My first contribution to MediaWiki

[Tom Buskey]

I had the luck of a heavily used Sharepoint server with a wiki plugin.  Try
exporting *that* to anything you can put on a CD.  Or a 2nd, read only wiki
that isn't Sharepoint.



On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) <
greg at freephile.com> wrote:

>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
>
>> Nice!  I'm surprised there isn't an HTML import already.
>>
>>
> Yeah, me too.  But it ain't easy.  Thanks to Tom Metro, I've rediscovered
> Pandoc which will probably be a lot more useful as a conversion engine than
> my original plan which was to use the node.js Parsoid service.  Anyway,
> it's a work in progress.  At this point it's working, but I know that the
> code can be improved a ton.
>
>
>
>> One of the beefs I have with wikis I've used is importing (and exporting)
>> existing documents that already have markup.
>>
>> I used to download all the Solaris documents in HTML to CD for use w/o
>> internet connection.  It might've been useful to build a local wiki server
>> to import them into.
>>
>
> Exactly, there are lots of cases where you have existing HTML, and would
> want to import it into a wiki.
>
> And not just for 'pure knowledgebase wikis'. Think about a satire site
> that captures existing webpages and then lets users go to town "correcting"
> or annotating the contents of the original :-)
>
>
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