really could use some help/advise on converting mediawiki to vaultwiki.
I have converted my wiki which is over 15.000 pages to vaultwiki folowing the steps in the tutorial. (extra namespaces etc)
the whole conversion took over 9 hours to complete!
BUT, the whole wiki is a mess right now. I think about 70-80% is not converted well
that is way to many page to correct manually! so i am gonna need some help from users that have accomplished such conversions before.
my main problems are:
templates are really bad converted (feels like only half)
example:
original before conversion
Code:
<noinclude>[[Category:Navigation Templates|{{PAGENAME}}]]</noinclude>
<small>[[{{NAMESPACE}}:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] » [[{{NAMESPACE}}:{{{2}}}|{{{2}}}]] » [[{{NAMESPACE}}:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] » [[{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}}]]</small>
after conversion
Code:
<noinclude>[category]Navigation Templates|[var]PAGENAME[/var[/category]]</noinclude>
<small>[wiki="[var]NAMESPACE[/var]:{{{1}}}"]{{{1}}}[/wiki] » [wiki="[var]NAMESPACE[/var]:{{{2}}}"]{{{2}}}[/wiki] » [wiki="[var]NAMESPACE[/var]:{{{3}}}"]{{{3}}}[/wiki] » [wiki="[var]NAMESPACE[/var]:[var]PAGENAME[/var]"][var]PAGENAME[/var[/wiki]]</small>
which displays when included
Code:
<noinclude>]</noinclude>
<small>Main Page » Vosgaard » Dragon Coast » [var]PAGENAME[/var]</small>
<noinclude>]
</noinclude>
BUT the links are ALL red like the pages dont exist.
or:
Code:
<noinclude>
[i]Usage: [/i] [template]tlink|brbox/Begin[/template] [i]text here[/i] [template]tlink|brbox/End[/template]
[i]Takes an optional [b]width[/b] parameter, e.g.: [/i] <code>{{brbox/Begin|width=220px}}</code>
[template]AlsoSee|[template]tlink|brbox[/template][/template]
[category]General Wiki Templates|[var]PAGENAME[/var[/category]]
[hr][/hr]
</noinclude>{| id="brbox" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style="width:{{{width|240px}}}; float:right; margin:0em 0em 1em 2em; background: #3C3C3C;"
|-
|colspan=11|
[div] style="position:relative;" |
<div style="font-size:1px; position:absolute; top:-3px; left:5px; width:93%; height:1px; background:#111111;">
[/div]
[div] style="font-size:1px; position:absolute; top:-2px; left:5px; width:93%; height:1px; background:#444444;" |
[/div]
[div] style="font-size:1px; position:absolute; top:-1px; left:5px; width:93%; height:1px; background:#888888;" |
[/div]
[div] style="font-size:1px; position:absolute; top: 0px; left:5px; width:93%; height:1px; background:#111111;" |
[/div]
[div] style="font-size:1px; position:absolute; top:-3px; left:0px;" |
[image]brbox-topleft.gif[/image]
[/div]
[div] style="font-size:1px; position:absolute; top:-3px; right:0px;" |
[image]brbox-topright.gif[/image]
[/div]
</div>
|-
|width=1 bgcolor="#111111" |
|width=1 bgcolor="#404040" |
|width=1 bgcolor="#555555" |
|width=1 bgcolor="#111111" |
|width=12|
|
[div] style="height:1em;" |
[/div]
why are some DIVs converted and why are some not??
Many many links are red now, often titles that contain special characters like "(" or ")"
but also for no reason...
Many blue links (pages that should exists) when clicked on it displays: this page contains no text
Another things is that my wiki makes use of SUB pages..
like for example Main_Page/page2/page3 or User:PeterPan/page2/page3
these are being converted to Main_Page_page2_page3 breaking every single link to them
uff writing this down, i dont even know where to start to fix things or makes things work..
hopefully someone got a suggestion.
cheers
arjan
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