Converting to Drupal

Just wondering if anyone has found a way to migrate articles from mediawiki into drupal nodes. Best pratices? Recommendations?

Started thinking possibly using RSS export exstension on Mediawiki, and FeedAPI, to bring them into nodes. Any thoughts on this?

Hello,

I am developing a community-type website, using Drupal. This is my first project with Drupal. My tendency was to use Drupal 6.2, since it is the latest version, but later I found out that there is still a long way until all the important modules will be upgraded to 6.2.

I want to convert the site www.tutsbuzz.com to drupal. But I don't know how to do this. I have some questions about converting:

1. how to convert the menu system in this site to drupal. (It actually consists of two database tables for main categories like 2D Graphics, 3D Graphics etc. and sub-categories like Adobe Photoshop which is sublevel of 2D Graphics)

• Do I need to create this menu as a vocabulary in taxonomy
• if yes, should I create the main categories like 2D Graphics, 3D Graphics as terms and sub-categories like Adobe Photoshop as a sub-term which has 2D Graphics as parent term.
• if no, how can I do this

• should I use taxonomy on drupal to convert them ?
• actually the site has thousands of tags available and if I convert to taxonomy, does it affect the performance of the site ?
• should I use an extra module for tags ? if yes, which module...

• drupal is running on my localhost quite slowly. I just used the devel module and have seen that drupal is running thousands of queries on every page load! some pages take 2 or 3 seconds to load! how to run it with the best performance!

I am in the process of trying to figure out what the best way to convert from wordpress to drupal. I have done this in the past one time and I used http://www.borber.com/en/projects/wp2drupal that plugin. Last time I used it, it worked great. But when I did it, it was a blog with like 30 posts.

Whats the best way to convert 40,000 posts as I think my server would time out or something would happen. Is there anyway to convert everything locally like on my computer?

I am kinda new to all this so please bear with me if my terminology is not quite correct. A buddy of mine has a website with startlogic. The server info is as follows: CGI Active
Document Root /home/users/web/b252/sl.kentclaw/public_html
FrontPage Extensions Yes
Logs http://www.startlogic.com/webControl/LogFiles.bml
Platform
Type Debian
MySQL Version
MySQL Version 5.0.45
Perl Version
Perl 5.8.8
PHP Version
PHP 4.4.7

I have a client with a static website consisting of...