Paid project: convert existing HTML content with image maps to wiki content

[Oshyan]

Hello, I have some existing HTML pages that I want to convert to wiki content with format matching as close as possible. The tricky part about this is the content includes image maps, which also need to be converted. Here is an example:
http://www.planetside.co.uk/docs/tg2...AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

The requirements are as follows:
Automatically convert existing HTML with image maps to wiki markup/content
Maintain as much formatting as possible in the conversion
Convert all content without the need for user intervention
Automatically upload any associated images for each page
Automatically create wiki entries in an *existing* wiki, without harming existing content
Automatically name pages from specified content on existing HTML pages

Optionally (depending on cost increase):
Install and configure any necessary modifications to my mediawiki install to make the above process workable
Note: I can probably do this if I know specifically what mods need to be installed, but if it's quick, easy, and inexpensive to include it in the project, then that would be preferred.

I have found the following related tools and modifications that I think will be helpful. Note that there is an existing image map mod that I intend to use (listed here):
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Catego...WYG_extensions
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WYSIWYG_editor
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ImageMap
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extens...eMapConversion
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:ImportImages.php

http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/wiki_import/

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:ImportTextFile.php

http://toolserver.org/~diberri/cgi-bin/html2wiki/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...ools#From_HTML

http://goessner.net/articles/wiky/

Compensation is open for negotiation. I am prepared to compensate fairly. I don't see this as a tremendously complicated project given availability of the above tools.

If you are interested in this project, please reply or PM me with at least one example of your previous work and an initial estimate of project time and cost. We can discuss further to refine the estimates, but I will need something up-front to evaluate.

Thanks!

Best Regards,

Oshyan Greene

[Oshyan]

Wow, 170 views and not a single reply? Come on, I've got cold, hard, cash-money! Seriously though, how about $500 starting bid? Any takers? Make me an offer. So far I've got nothing, so I'm open to suggestion.

Thanks,

Oshyan

[nat]

IMHO a one-shot conversion can be done using hacks of various existing tools, some tiny new development and also by-hand fixing of artefacts.

Developing a stable set of tools able to automatically convert any new content is another story, this seems not possible in less than a few WEEKS of work if you are not ready to accept major boo-boos in many parts of the output.

If you are interested in a one-shot migration from the existing repository to a wiki let's discuss the mission terms.

If you have to keep maintaining the existing stuff and do not want partially-manual processing... I pass.

[Oshyan]

We're moving entirely to a wiki system so one-time conversion is acceptable. We do want to be able to convert image maps from HTML to wiki format in the future in the same way, but the rest of the conversion does not need to be repeated. So I think the one-shot migration approach, with manual tune-up post-conversion, would probably be ok, at least to get the initial job done.

Rest of reply in private message.

Thanks,

Oshyan