What happened to the Wikifier RT?

[Michelle Rau HP]

For several years, I used Graham Hannington's website "Wikifier RT" to convert Confluence format to wiki markup. It was incredibly useful especially when using the Reporting series of nested macros. Now the site just returns errors. Does anyone know what happened, and is there an alternative that's live?

Old explanation / info about it:

https://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/how-to-convert-confluence-xml-storage-format-to-wiki-markup/

[Graham Hannington · Accepted solution]

@Michelle Rau HP wrote:

[Wikifier RT] was incredibly useful

That's very kind of you, thank you!

Now the site just returns errors. Does anyone know what happened ... ?

I suspect that Amnet, the ISP that hosted the site, did some housecleaning. I haven't been an Amnet customer for years.

I only just discovered the site was down today. I hadn't used Wikifier RT for a while. I Googled for "Wikifier RT", thinking perhaps I'd entered the wrong URL, and found this "What happened ... ?" page.

is there an alternative that's live?

Yes.

Today, I resurrected Wikifier RT as a GitHub Pages site:

https://grahamhannington.github.io/wikifier-rt

Sorry, I should have done this years ago.

[Graham Hannington]

For what it's worth, today I also published to GitHub the schema that I developed back in 2012 to validate the Confluence storage format:

https://grahamhannington.github.io/confluence-schema

I imagine the format has moved on significantly since then, so this schema will likely need updating to validate the current format. I haven't tried.

Still, I have successfully used the original Wikifier (older sibling of Wikifier RT) in that schema repository to convert Confluence XML from a recent Confluence page to wiki markup. So, that's something.

[Michelle Rau HP]

I am SO EXCITED to see this up and running again @Graham Hannington !  ❤️  I had really been missing it, since I don't have access to view/edit storage format on my corporate instance.  I really appreciate your generous restoration of this tool.

[Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM]

Looks like he took the site down.  From linkedIN it seems like he is still alive and works for Rocket Software, you might want to reach out to him directly and ask about his converter.