migrating from FrameMaker to a wiki

[Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain@aeris.net)]

Thanks, Robert!

We also use Confluence as a managed service - so it is probably the latest version, but I will check. That would be the place where we would put our Wiki version of documentation.

Yes, I do have a bunch of legacy documents too - many, many pages , so maybe Mif2Go may be a necessary purchase for me as well. Bulk conversion is probably not critical, but certainly new versions could be done that way as I work on them.

Regards,

Z

-----Original Message-----
From: robert.lauriston at gmail.com [mailto:robert.lauriston at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 11:04 AM
To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net); framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: migrating from FrameMaker to a wiki

Around a year ago I spent 4-5 months evaluating wikis with the goal of migrating from FrameMaker. Confluence 4 and MindTouch were by far the most practical, since they're based on XHTML rather than wiki markup.

One big challenge was converting thousands of pages of legacy docs. I got MIF2Go working on a page-by-page basis for both. I got stuck because I couldn't find a documented bulk import utility that worked.

Confluence has a very active user community and great support, but I (and others) reached a dead end as far as bulk conversion from
FrameMaker:

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/19789/converting-from-framemaker-to-confluence-4?page=1#27775

WebWorks ePublisher can convert from FrameMaker to Confluence, but that's wiki markup and obsolete. If they ever update that to the new XHTML format that could solve the problem.

If you're on a tight budget, forget about MindTouch, you get a choice between a hosted solution (MindTouch TCS) that's fairly expensive and a free version (MindTouch Core) that doesn't have enough support.


On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Syed Zaeem Hosain
(Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) <Syed.Hosain at aeris.net> wrote:
> Anyway, as of yesterday, I am now exploring making all my work be 
> hyperlinked Wiki documents instead