How to Migrate from MoinMoin/Talk

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Nathan, do you jnow this... I nedd to learn to use the class and of cource to expand... there must be an easier way to build the allPages :)


My understanding is that all you need to do is run importMoinMoinIntoDB.py. No need for reduce — it takes moinmoin data as usual. —PhilipNeustrom


That's correct, only execution of importMoinMoinIntoDB.py is needed for importing data from MoinMoin to Sycamore. Unless MoinMoin data structure has changed significantly from version 1.3.5, which is the only version I've tested the migration process on. Which version are you trying to Migrate from DetlevLengsfeld? —NathanReynolds

First you need to grab the DBConversion tools from ... FYI, importMoinMoinIntoDB.py was just added. You think a numbered-list is an easier way to explain?

Maybe :D —NathanReynolds

no its easier for quick reader and for old_moin_admins :) —DetlevLengsfeld

• Looks like dethumb.pl is not being executed. It's in DBConversion, need to verify that dethumb has execution permissions (chmod +x), and that DBConversion is in your $PATH. —NathanReynolds
  

These two errors are caused by Sycamore not having the macros that moin has. In this case the pages will be imported but the page caches won't be automatically generated (this error should have happened during the "building page caches" step). You should be able to fix these pages manually.

• It's for finding image attachments in a page for de-thumbing, The ol' DavisWiki had a macro called Thumbnail, which was re-named to Image in Sycamore. So, on a DavisWiki import, all page text was re-worked during the import process. The DruidWiki had ported the macro as a patch for MoinMoin 1.3.5, so I had the same need there. A standard MoinMoin wiki does not need to be de-thumbed, but de-thumbing won't harm existing text, so it's a harmless process... Well, mostly harmless ;) —NathanReynolds
  

• dethumb.pl also converts attachment:name.jpg into [[Image(name.jpg)]] which you need.
  

• I stand corrected :) —NathanReynolds
  

You are using the python print which does an implicit conversion of the unicode pagename to, in this case, iso8859. The character you're printing isn't supported. Try, instead, print pagename.encode('utf-8'), version, to test your page names.