This document lists limitations of the last version of Moin2Tiki. If they don’t allow you to use Moin2Tiki, I might be willing to help you and improve it. Please contact me, at <post at volker-wysk dot de>.
Moin2Tiki so far supports only one user. You can specifiy only one
for each call of the moin2tiki program. Theoretically, you
can call it with different MoinMoin users, one for each call. But you
would have to sort out the pages of each MoinMoin user, what probably is
impractical.
Moin2Tiki may support multiple users in a later version.
You need command line access to the machines which run your
MoinMoin and your Tiki server. Moin2Tiki reads the pages from MoinMoin’s
“pages” directory. You can use it in place, or copy this directory to
another machine and run Moin2Tiki there. Moin2Tiki calls a script
(moin-import.php) on the Tiki server - directly, not over
HTTP. You need permissions to place this script, and a stylesheet
(moin.css) in the Tiki root directory.
Moin2Tiki is developed and tested on Linux. The provided AppImage should run on all Linux distributions. There’s no Windows or MacOS version.
MoinMoin Variables aren’t supported.
Moin2Tiki has support for transforming MoinMoin’s Syntax Highlighting, but for no other parsers.
At present, the transforming of embeddings from MoinMoin to Tiki is possible for images only. There are other types of embeddings, which could be translated too. Such as diagrams, MP3 audio and flash videos, vector drawings. See PluginFlash, PluginYouTube and PluginDiagram. For things other that images, that are embedded in MoinMoin pages, a link is generated instead.
Interwiki-Links aren’t supported.
MoinMoin page forwardings aren’t supported, since I don’t use them. I’m willing to add them, if there is any interest.
(Mostly) only documented MoinMoin features are supported.
CamelCase is supported only on the MoinMoin side. All encountered CamelCase links are transformed to regular links on the Tiki side.
No support for MoinMoin themes. See HelpOnThemes.
Only basic support for MoinMoin tables. The table attributes, listed in (HelpOnTables)[https://moinmo.in/HelpOnTables] aren’t supported.
Only normal, simple code blocks that start with {{{
on a separate line and end with }}} on a separate line. No
support for nesting of parser sections. See Parser
sections and nesting.
No support for Creole.
Only some of the MoinMoin macros are recognized and transformed to Tiki. MoinMoin has so many macros, it’s impossible to support them all. In the version of Moin2Tiki, to which this page belongs, only the following macros are supported: <<BR>>, <<Anchor>>, <<TableOfContents>>, <<ListPages>>. Non-supported macro invocations will be included in the Tiki page verbatim, like they are called in the correspondig Moin2Moin page. Adding new MoinMoin macros to Moin2Tiki is straightforward. If you have some macros that you think should be recognized, then contact me.
The output of definition lists isn’t the same in Tiki as in MoinMoin, with respect to empty lines. It’s the way Tiki handles them, I can’t do anything about it.
The ListPages macro has only partial support, because there is no exact equivalent in Tiki. In Tiki, you can’t specify the pages to list with a regular expression, but only with a substring search.
When you have a link from a selected page to a non-selected page and the link has an anchor part and the anchor name includes non-ASCII letters and it’s an explicit anchor (not to one generated from a heading) then you will get a broken link. The link to the page will be okay, but the anchor part will dangle. See here for more details.