CUNY Academic Commons

Hi Michael,

I came across an interesting post by another user that also went through a similar process of importing their Wikispaces content into WordPress:
http://randombitsbytes.com/migrating-wikispaces-content-to-wordpress/

To begin, you should export your content to HTML and attach the generated ZIP file to this ticket. If the ZIP file is too large for Redmine, can you upload the file to Google Drive or a similar online filesharing site and pass on the link? If the wiki content has sensitive material, please check the "Private notes" checkbox when you make your reply with the ZIP file, or I can mark this ticket as private.

Next, I'm thinking I can parse the HTML files locally and create the necessary WordPress posts. Once I'm done, I can export the posts into a format that WordPress will recognize, which we can then use on your oirawikitest site.

Let me know if you have any follow-up questions or concerns.

Hi Ray,

Thanks for your response. The files that I attached above are the exported HTML files. Since I don't want you to spend a large amount of time working on parsing the HTML files to just run a test, could you see if your method works with the three files above?

Thanks again!
-Michael

Thank you for your work on this, Ray!

Thanks for taking care of this Ray. I was able to import the XML file. I'm aware that we'll need to figure something out for the files that were hosted by Wikispaces.

It looks like the XML file added "pages" to the blog but I'm not sure how to access those pages from within the blog (they aren't listed on the left side of the page). I'm sure this is a simple tweak but can you let me know how to do that?

Thanks again!!

-Michael

Hi Michael,

I imported the HTML files as pages and not blog posts, because the content seemed to be more applicable as a page.

As far as adding links to the pages, you can use your theme's widgets and menus to add these links. I've taken the opportunity to add the three pages from the import to the top menu, as well as adding a new "Pages" menu to the widget sidebar.

All the widgets in the sidebar are configurable. Visit the WP admin dashboard and navigate to "Appearance > Widgets" to see what you can add or remove. Likewise for menus at "Appearance > Menus".

Let me know what you think and how you want to proceed with the other Wikispaces content.

THANK YOU! This looks fantastic! I'll demonstrate the trial site to OIRA's management and see if they want to move forward.

Thanks again for all of your help!

-Michael

Hi Michael,

I have an idea on how to easily keep the internal files from Wikispaces linked properly.

We would upload your internal files to our server, and switch out the older links for the new ones. You would not be able to administer these files over WordPress though. (Boone, I'm thinking we would use the existing wp-content/static/ directory to upload OIRA's files such as PDFs and the like. These files wouldn't be tracked in our Git repository.)

If you need to manage files within WordPress, you would need to upload the file into WordPress first. I would recommend doing this only for new content that you add to the site.

Let me know what you think when you've had a chance to discuss things over with your team.

Hi Ray and Matt,

Thank you again for all of your help! We really appreciate it. We would like to move forward with using the Academic Commons as our main Wiki site. In the future, I'm also hoping that we can use the other capabilities of the site to provide further support for our office along with the campus IR offices.

An OIRA Staff member (Sarah Truelsch) registered oirap.commons.gc.cuny.edu back in 2013 when OIRA was exploring other sites. Sarah deleted the site but I'm still unable to register that URL. Is there anything that you can do to free up the oirap site? Once I register it and set up our new site, I'll pass along the full export of the Wiki.

Thank you again for everything!

-Michael

That's fantastic news, Michael!!!! Ray should be able to help you out with the URL. We can also help you set up a cuny.is link of your choice for this site should you want one (ie, cuny.is/research or the like)

Excellent, thanks guys! Ray, please let me know when the URL has been freed up so that I can register the site for the Wiki.

We look forward to continuing to work with you.

Hi Michael,

The oirap.commons.gc.cuny.edu site was previously marked as deleted. I've just added it back and have added your Commons account as an administrator.

I've also set the privacy setting so only registered Commons users can view the site and have activated the Academia theme as well, as these were the settings you were using on the oirawikitest.commons.gc.cuny.edu site.

Let me know when you can provide a copy of the Wikispaces export to me. As I mentioned above, if the wiki content has sensitive material, please check the "Private notes" checkbox when you make your reply with the ZIP file, or I can mark this ticket as private.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! This looks ABSOLUTELY amazing! You even managed to preserve the formatting!

I checked a few links to files and they look like they're all there as well. I'm going to work on exploring the WP features and cleaning up a few articles.

There are 1 or 2 (MUCH smaller) Wikis that we also need to have imported. Would it be a very heavy lift for you to import those as well? I'm not sure what site they'll be on yet but what I'm thinking of doing is creating a group that will link them all together.

Thanks again for everything! You've been an incredible help to us!!

-Michael