Hi, I'm looknig for advice / inspiration / modules / libraries, that could help. I'm a little more fluent in perl, but a php solution would also be fine. I'm having two Wiki servers: Server1: - phpwiki with user authentication - direct access to the mysql data _base_ possible - contains about 400 entries Server1: - MediaWiki (Wikipedia is Mediawiki _base_d) with user authentification - direct access to the mysql data _base_ possible - contains about 30 entries I'd like to copy over about 350 entries from Server1 to Server2(I could apply a filter rule or semiautomatically create a list with entries to copy As the amount of entries is low I don't really need an optimized solution. Entries in server 2 can be overwritten. I wanted to have your advice: 1.) Is there already something similiar, that exists? 2.) Is there a Wikiadmin focused news group (I don't like mailing lists and web _base_d forums, as you have to create a noew account for most of them or to increase your spam rate even more) ? If not: I know very little about the wiki internals and was thinking about a 'brute force' method, not knowing if something better exists: The idea: 1.) get all the entries from the phpWiki via mysql ( from table wiki ) 2.) fix naming _style_ (my phpwiki entries contain spaces) 3.) replace the phpWiki syntax with Mediawiki syntax (I found url with some sed rules, which are probably incomplete, but could be a goiod starting point) and fix naming _style_s of interlnal _link_s. 4.) access the Mediawiki via http, authenticate and post the new entries My idea was to 'post' new entries though it is probaly slower than directly populating the mysql data _base_ as this allows to populate Mediawiki without having to know how the internal mysql book keeping works exactly. thanks in advance for any ideas and bye N P.S. I posted to comp.lang.php and comp.lang.perl.misc but thought, that cross posting may not be a good idea as probaly most follow ups will be very language specific.

apply a filter rule or semiautomatically create a list with entries to copy As the amount of entries is low I don't really need an optimized solution. Entries in server 2 can be overwritten. I wanted to have your advice: 1.) Is there already something similiar, that exists? 2.) Is there a Wikiadmin focused news group (I don't like mailing lists and web _base_d forums, as you have to create a noew account for most of them or to increase your spam rate even more) ? If not: I know very little about the wiki internals and was thinking about a 'brute force' method, not knowing if something better exists: The idea: 1.) get all the entries from the phpWiki via mysql ( from table wiki ) 2.) fix naming _style_ (my phpwiki entries contain spaces) 3.) replace the phpWiki syntax with Mediawiki syntax (I found url with some sed rules, which are probably incomplete, but could be a goiod starting point) and fix naming _style_s of interlnal _link_s. 4.) access the Mediawiki via http, authenticate and post the new entries My idea was to 'post' new entries though it is probaly slower than directly populating the mysql data _base_ as this allows to populate Mediawiki without having to know how the internal mysql book keeping works exactly. thanks in advance for any ideas and bye dump the phpwiki pages as xhtml, convert it via the perl module HTML::WikiConverter:hpWiki   (I contributed the PhpWiki reader) import this into mediawiki. The real problem is, that mediawiki started with a non-wiki special syntax, and then the flock new wiki's didn't care neither and invented their own syntax also.