Help:Converting HTML to Wiki Syntax

The easiest way to import content from a web page into the Kumu Wiki is to convert the HTML code into Wiki Syntax. Please be mindful of copyright.

As editing of the results is frequently necessary, it is a good idea to be familiar with basic HTML tags and wiki code before trying to convert into MediaWiki markup.

Step by step directions

 * 1) Open one of the converters from the list below.
 * 2) In a new tab or window, open the webpage that you wish to import into the Kumu Wiki.
 * 3) This next step depends on which converter you have opened. Do one of the following:
 * 4) * View the page source (in the right-click menu). Then copy/paste the relevant code (just the content section, not the whole page (see note below)) into the (top) box of the converter.
 * 5) * Or, copy the link in the "Fetch from URL" box. In this case, you will need to delete the header and footer.
 * 6) * Note: Generally, for a Kumu page, what you want to keep is between and.
 * 7) Settings (if applicable):
 * 8) * Wiki Dialect = MediaWiki
 * 9) * Encode HTML Entities = unchecked
 * 10) Click on the "Convert HTML to wiki markup" button (if it doesn't work, use the "Fetch from URL" option or another HTML converter).
 * 11) Copy/paste the resulting text into the edit box of the wiki page you have created.
 * 12) Preview the page and check that everything looks correct.
 * 13) * Most errors will be very easy to fix, sometimes the first line of a table isn't on a new line, or a link begins and ends at the wrong places (just move the square brackets).
 * 14) * If you get funny characters in place of apostrophes for example, the easiest/quickest solution is to copy and paste the wiki code into a text editor and use the "Replace All..." function.
 * 15) * If you have a lot of HTML left over and/or something goes very wrong, then copy and paste the wiki code into a Strip HTML tool and also copy the following into the "Allow tags" box:     (you may not want all of these, particularly blockquote) You can then copy and paste the code that tool gives you back into the wiki editing box.
 * 16) Save!
 * Please Note: Images will need to be uploaded as only placeholders are created in the code.

Online HTML to Wiki Syntax Converters
Recommended Others
 * http://openfacts2.berlios.de/html2wiki/index.php
 * http://www.ebruni.it/en/software/os/i_love_wiki/index.mpl
 * http://labs.seapine.com/htmltowiki.cgi

First draft of this page derived from: http://wiki.ubc.ca/UBC_Wiki:FAQs