topic Re: What is the wiki dialect? in Alfresco Archive

What is the wiki dialect?

urshah — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:46:14 GMT

Using Alfresco Share 3.2 and want to convert a 60 page word document to the share wiki and using the html2wiki converter on http://toolserver.org/~diberri/cgi-bin/html2wiki/index.cgi but its asking me the wiki dialect i want to use. I tried a few of them and none seem to display quite right. Anyone

Re: What is the wiki dialect?

_sax — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:05:09 GMT

According to http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=17842 that wiki has no real dialect. It just interprets two markups: a link, and italics. The goal of Alfresco's Share integrated wiki is MediaWiki compatibility.
Right now you could try to extend Alfresco/tomcat/webapps/share/components/wiki/parser.js which is the file that interprets wiki syntax.
As an alternative you could rebuild the tables with the wiki GUI controls for tables. Or you convert your Word to HTML via Alfresco's internal converter and link to these HTML files from within your wiki or Site.

Re: What is the wiki dialect?

urshah — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:03:55 GMT

Thanks for the suggestions. I did try the internal converter to HTML and all i get is garbage text. The converter doesn't even work with simple text only Word documents.
I will try the other methods you listed.

thanks.

Re: What is the wiki dialect?

mikeh — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:34:38 GMT

The wiki "dialect" is currently HTML only - with support for [[page]] -style internal links.

We're mindful that people expect a MediaWiki-style mark-up instead and this is something we're trying to add to the Roadmap.

Thanks,
Mike