I use Kwiki for lecture notes, homework and other Web pages I need to teach my class. Here's an example: the lectures for my programming language design class.

Today I needed to convert some old pages (embedded in PHP) for use on the wiki. I did one by hand and thought that I ought to write a Perl program to convert the HTML to Kwiki mark-up. Then I got smart and realized someone must have already done it--I was right. David Iberri has a HTML to Kwiki module for Perl that with a little scaffolding did the job nicely:

#!/usr/bin/perl

# use a '-' to get stdin
open(FOO,$ARGV[0]);
while() {
    $html .= $_;
}

use HTML::WikiConverter;
my $wc = new HTML::WikiConverter( dialect => 'Kwiki' );
print $wc->html2wiki( $html );

Now a shell loop, wget or curl, and this little script makes quick work of the conversion.