Help test Etherpad to MozillaWiki importer

(Forgive me if this is the wrong place to post this and if it is, please let me know where is more appropriate.)

I’ve been working on a MozillaWiki extension that will make it easy to create wiki pages from public etherpads (classic AND lite). It’s far enough along that I need a bunch of you to try it with etherpads you use regularly and give feedback about how it works.

I’ve installed the extension on our sandbox wiki and you should be able to login with your regular credentials unless you have recently changed them or your account is very new. (Also, our sandbox has a self-signed ssl cert, so you’ll need to accept the associated warnings in order to view the site.)

Here’s a page with more details about the extension, including how to use it and provide feedback: https://wiki-sandbox.allizom.org/Help:Import_From_Etherpad

Thanks for you help!

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I think Andreas Wagner can give some input here since he has been exporting our Etherpad notes to the Wiki for 2 meetings now. I’ve pinged him about this thread on IRC.

this looks great Christie - will check it out thanks!

We currently use https://github.com/kmaglione/wikimtgs managing our bi-weekly meeting minutes

(After configuration) what it does is:

The configuration and setup took me a while to figure out, I’m happy to help if you want to reproduce or play around with this.

Does this mean that you can use the etherpad mark-up in the pad and the exporter will convert it to wiki mark-up? If so I’m very excited for this. Some teams write their notes in the pad in wiki mark-up and I just can’t parse those notes in the same way.

Christie,.I’ve used this on a couple of etherpads in the sandbox, and it works beautifully. Thank you, thank you, thank you … this makes me very, very happy.

The idea is awesome, just this warning is annoyed.

If wikimtgs tool is working for you, that’s great.

To clarify, this new Import From Etherpad extension works very differently. It’s a tool we’ll install on wiki.mozilla.org that will allow anyone who can create pages on MozillaWiki to create pages from public etherpads. No setup required.

Yes, the importer will convert etherpad markup (html, really) to mediawiki markup. The only caveat is that etherpad supports only a small subset of the formatting you can do with html and wiki markup. That means to have things like true headings, you’d want to use wiki markup in the etherpad (e.g. == heading ==).

Sorry about that. We’ll deploy the extension to our dev server, which has proper ssl certs, this week.

Quick update – this is now live on MozillaWiki! https://wiki.mozilla.org/Help:Import_From_Etherpad

Thank you everyone who tested and provided feedback. The page above has information about how to use the feature and also how to report bugs if you notice something not quite right.

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