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Importing HTML manual to Wiki

by John Tucker - Thursday, November 30, 2006, 1:55 PM

Is it possible to import an entire manual made up of html pages into a wiki? To explain, I have a large manual that I would like to put into a wiki in Moodle so that it can be collaboratively edited as necessary. However, if I have to manually import each individual page and link it, it would be a real pain!

Any advice appreciated!

John

Re: Importing HTML manual to Wiki

by Bartłomiej Polakowski - Friday, December 1, 2006, 5:24 PM

Im also interested in this topic. How to import automaticly a lot of pages to Moodle?

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Re: Importing HTML manual to Wiki

by Ludo (Marc Alier) - Sunday, December 3, 2006, 1:03 AM

All the current moodle wikis, (the oficial and the good ones

)suport the HTML editor, so by copy and paste to the HTML editor it can work. There's no automatic process to import 1000 pages into a wiki if that's the question.
Another issue is that dfwiki and n wiki can combine HTML editor pages, mediawiki markup pages (DFwiki editor) and ewiki syntax pages.
You can try it at our sandbox.
Cheers Ludo

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Re: Importing HTML manual to Wiki

by John Tucker - Monday, December 4, 2006, 6:14 AM

"There's no automatic process to import 1000 pages into a wiki if that's the question."

Thanks Marc, but yes that was the question so I guess I've got an awful lot of cutting and pasting to do!!! mixed

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Re: Importing HTML manual to Wiki

by Ludo (Marc Alier) - Monday, December 4, 2006, 4:59 PM

Well,
you could write a script that compiles all your html files into one single XML n wiki export file.

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Re: Importing HTML manual to Wiki

by Bartłomiej Polakowski - Monday, December 4, 2006, 6:06 PM

But than it will be like a one huge wiki page, wont it? Im fighting with the same problem. I exported a few pages from Wikipedia a try to import them to Moodle(The formatting in dfWiki is much more better than standard wiki

) but not as a single page.

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Re: Importing HTML manual to Wiki

by Ludo (Marc Alier) - Monday, December 4, 2006, 11:25 PM

I mean to create a XML file like a "n wiki" export where you can define as many wikipages as you like and to use HTMLEditor format to use html editor content directly.
For example:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> 

- <dfwiki>
- <wiki>
  <ID>6</ID> 
  <COURSE>4</COURSE> 
  <NAME>Moodle N Wiki Wiki!</NAME> 
  <PAGENAME>Begin here</PAGENAME> 
  <TIMEMODIFIED>1160655523</TIMEMODIFIED> 
  <EDITABLE>1</EDITABLE> 
  <ATTACH>0</ATTACH> 
  <UPLOAD>0</UPLOAD> 
  <RESTORE>0</RESTORE> 
  <EDITOR>dfwiki</EDITOR> 
  <GROUPMODE>0</GROUPMODE> 
  <INTRO>This is a wiki about Moodle N Wiki !!</INTRO> 
  <INTROFORMAT>1</INTROFORMAT> 
  <STUDENTMODE>0</STUDENTMODE> 
  <TEACHERDISCUSSION>1</TEACHERDISCUSSION> 
  <STUDENTDISCUSSION>0</STUDENTDISCUSSION> 
  <EVALUATION>noeval</EVALUATION> 
  <NOTETYPE>quant</NOTETYPE> 
  <EDITANOTHERGROUP>0</EDITANOTHERGROUP> 
  <EDITANOTHERSTUDENT>1</EDITANOTHERSTUDENT> 
  <VOTEMODE>1</VOTEMODE> 
  <LISTOFTEACHERS>0</LISTOFTEACHERS> 
  </wiki>
- <contents>
- <page>
  <ID>5043</ID> 
  <PAGENAME>Begin here</PAGENAME> 
  <VERSION>19</VERSION> 
  <CONTENT>=Wiki= == What the Bleep are NWiki and DFWiki ? == == About WikiBook and TiddlywikiIntegration == *Wikibook FAQ *Tiddlywiki integration with New Moodle Wiki ===NWiki the future of wikis in Moodle=== What we call N-Wiki is an alternative wiki module for Moodle 1.6 and later versions. The 1.8 version of Moodle (comming up somewhere in 2007) will be powered by this wiki and the current standard wiki will be dumped out.  ===Migration issues=== When installed N-Wiki replaces the standard wiki module and imports all of the wiki contents without data loss. ===DFWiki, the older brother=== NWiki is based on an alternative module called DFWiki that improves the standard Moodle Wiki on Moodle 1.5.x installations. ===Links and refs=== For more information you can refer to: *[http://appserv.lsi.upc.es/palangana/moodle/course/view.php?id=15 DFWiki home page] *[http://morfeo.upc.es/crom/course/view.php?id=4 DFWikilabs NWiki and DFwiki new home page] *[http://docs.moodle.org/en/Dfwiki] *[http://playpen.monte.nsw.edu.au/newsletter/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=26 The article "Lions Tigers and Wikis.. oh my!" at Moodle newsletter 2] == Getting started == === Installation and Migration === *HOWTO - Install N-Wiki in Moodle 1.6 ? *HOWTO - Migrate contents from old wiki to N-wiki? *HOWTO - Import and Export Wiki contents between wikis *HOWTO - Migrate contents from DFWiki to NWiki ===Firts Steps with wiki === *HOWTO - Setup a Wiki activity *NWiki basic environment ===Using Wikis=== *N Wiki Native Markup language *The HTML editor with Wiki *File Atachments *Embeding images from hosted outside For example from [[http://Flickr.com]] *Wiki and Group Modes ==Markup Xlanguage== N Wiki and DFWiki come with 3 possible Markup Languages: DFWiki native, eWiki and Moodle HTML Editor. We will not talk about ewiki markup because we don't use it but for backward compatibility issues. ==Quick Wiki Usage Tutorials == TODOList =Internalmail= Internalmail Guide (Spanish version under construction) =Web Syndication= RSS in comparisson with ATOM (spanish version)</CONTENT> 
  <AUTHOR>riverinyo</AUTHOR> 
  <CREATED>1160234103</CREATED> 
  <LASTMODIFIED>1164768983</LASTMODIFIED> 
  <REFS>Wikibook FAQ|Tiddlywiki integration with New Moodle Wiki|HOWTO - Install N-Wiki in Moodle 1.6 ?|HOWTO - Migrate contents from old wiki to N-wiki?|HOWTO - Import and Export Wiki contents between wikis|HOWTO - Migrate contents from DFWiki to NWiki|HOWTO - Setup a Wiki activity|NWiki basic environment|N Wiki Native Markup language|The HTML editor with Wiki|File Atachments|Embeding images from hosted outside|Wiki and Group Modes|TODOList|Internalmail Guide|RSS in comparisson with ATOM (spanish version)</REFS> 
  <HITS>20</HITS> 
  <EDITABLE>1</EDITABLE> 
  <DFWIKI>6</DFWIKI> 
  <EDITOR>dfwiki</EDITOR> 
  <GROUPID>0</GROUPID> 
  <USERID>120</USERID> 
  <OWNERID>0</OWNERID> 
  <EVALUATION /> 
  <HIGHLIGHT>0</HIGHLIGHT> 
  </page>
- <page>
  <ID>2767</ID> 
  <PAGENAME>How do I get the ImportDFwikisPlugin server side scripts working?</PAGENAME> 
  <VERSION>1</VERSION>
....
....
....

So you may define as many wiki pages you like.
Ludo

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Re: Importing HTML manual to Wiki

by Bartłomiej Polakowski - Tuesday, December 5, 2006, 2:53 AM

I understand but this way you will have one huge wiki site instead of many pages. The question is how to import for example many html pages or XML to many wiki pages?

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Re: Importing HTML manual to Wiki

by John Tucker - Tuesday, December 5, 2006, 5:32 AM

Could you please clarify Marc... does the XML file that you describe create a wiki with many pages or just one wikipage with many links within it? If it's the former then that is exactly what I want! Although I'm not sure that I fully understand how you create the required XML file from a set of html pages.

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Re: Importing HTML manual to Wiki

by Bartłomiej Polakowski - Thursday, December 7, 2006, 9:00 PM

How to export wiki sites in nWiki(wiki_rev2006112501)to XML? I was looking for an Export to XML function in Admin but i didnt find it.

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Re: Importing HTML manual to Wiki

by Ludo (Marc Alier) - Friday, December 8, 2006, 11:45 PM

This xml format allows you to create as many pages you like...
You can check it out by exporting your nwiki to a xml file... you need to use the admin_tools block ( I know that's a litle clumsy... but we copied the mediawiki use model ... We have talked about integrating the admin tools as another tab for teacher users only)

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Re: Importing HTML manual to Wiki

by Bartłomiej Polakowski - Saturday, December 9, 2006, 12:39 AM

ok..the problem is...I dont know how to access this block

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Re: Importing HTML manual to Wiki

by Ludo (Marc Alier) - Sunday, December 10, 2006, 5:48 PM

OK, you need to enable (on moodle admin settings) the use of blocks on activities... then you will be avle in a nwiki to set blocks editting on...
Then just add the block "administrative tools" and then you've yout a number of tools to play.

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Re: Importing HTML manual to Wiki

by Bartłomiej Polakowski - Sunday, December 10, 2006, 9:11 PM

Wow it looks very good

Thanx 4 help!

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Re: Importing HTML manual to Wiki

by Ludo (Marc Alier) - Sunday, December 10, 2006, 10:26 PM

nwiki has a lots of helpfull blocks... give them a try

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