Faced with the demise of Wikispaces, at least it has a pretty comprehensive and long established Backup/Export feature with which one can transfer to some sites without great loss. All page content, stored files, page discussions and content can be downloaded in a compressed file. The pages can be delivered in HTML, PDF and various wiki text syntaxes and on-page discussions and comments in XML, related to the pages, even to selected text within. Groups.io looks to me to be a potential destination for my site and would be more attractive if it had a bulk import from a Wikispaces backup/export set. That said, I also want the target site to have an export capability similar to that of Wikispaces - I don't want to be locked in with no way out.
From what I can see, Groups.io is very definitely a multiroom building of which only a couple of rooms have fire escapes - the message archive and the members list. Everything else is downloadable one file at a time at best or is inaccessible (e.g. wikiimages). The message archive is exported in MBOX format for which I see there are converters available to, e.g., HTML; I've not explored how faithfully a HTML message is conveyed through such a process.
- Are others concerned? Has there been any discussion (I found some about exporting specific parts but nothing holistic)?
- Has anyone evaluated the archive export for completeness, fidelity, mobility?
- Has there been any push on Beta for full backup/export?
Thanks,
Tom
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