Textile to DokuWiki Converter
FileFlip converts Textile to DokuWiki entirely inside your browser, using Pandoc compiled to WebAssembly. The file is never uploaded to a server: it is read off your disk, converted on your own machine, and saved back by the browser. That means no file-size limit, no queue and no account.
How do I convert a Textile file to DokuWiki?#
- Drop your Textile file onto the converter at the top of this page, or click it to pick one from your computer. You can add as many as you like.
- Leave the target set to DokuWiki and the conversion starts on its own. FileFlip downloads 65.8 MB of WebAssembly the first time and nothing after that, then runs Pandoc on your own machine.
- Save the DokuWiki file. Your browser writes it straight to your downloads folder, because there was never a server holding it.
Does converting Textile to DokuWiki lose quality?#
Not in the sense of pixels or samples. Converting Textile to DokuWiki rebuilds the file in DokuWiki's own model rather than re-encoding it, so everything DokuWiki can represent comes through exactly and anything it cannot has to be dropped. Expect the words to come through exactly and the page breaks to move.
Is it safe to convert Textile files online?#
Yes, because nothing is uploaded. FileFlip converts Textile files inside the browser tab you already have open, using WebAssembly builds of the same engines a desktop converter would install. Your file is read from your own disk into the page's memory, and no request carrying it is ever made.
You do not have to take that on trust. Open your browser's network panel, run a conversion, and you will see the engine come down and your file go nowhere. There is no upload, no server-side copy, no retention window, and no account tied to what you converted.
How FileFlip works lists every engine, its version and its download size, and shows how to check for yourself that nothing leaves your machine.
What Textile to DokuWiki actually does to the file#
Converting Textile to DokuWiki runs on Pandoc, downloads 65.8 MB of WebAssembly the first time and nothing after that, rebuilds the file in the target's own model, keeps selectable text and page layout.
| Engine | Pandoc |
|---|---|
| Conversion path | One step: Textile → DokuWiki |
| Downloaded to your browser | 65.8 MB, once, then cached by your browser |
| Quality | Rebuilt in the target's model |
| You get back | One file |
| Where it runs | In a background worker, so the page stays responsive |
What survives the conversion
| What is in the file | This conversion | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Selectable text | Kept | Carried through into the converted file. |
| Page layout | Kept | Carried through into the converted file. |
What is a Textile file?#
A TEXTILE file holds Textile markup, Dean Allen's 2002 lightweight syntax for the Textpattern content management system, using punctuation like *bold*, _italic_ and bq. for a blockquote to generate HTML.
Use Textile when working inside a system that already expects it, such as a Redmine wiki or a long-running Textpattern site.
Convert Textile to Markdown when moving content to a modern platform, since almost everything built in the last decade expects Markdown instead.
What is a DokuWiki file?#
A DOKUWIKI file holds a page written in DokuWiki syntax, the plain-text markup that DokuWiki itself stores as a .txt file on disk rather than in a database.
Keep pages in DokuWiki syntax while the wiki is actually running DokuWiki, since that's the renderer every construct is written for.
Convert DokuWiki syntax to another format when retiring the wiki or moving its content onto a different platform.
Textile to DokuWiki questions people ask#
What is a Textile file used for?
A Textile file holds plain text written in Textile markup, a lightweight syntax from the early blogging era that's still the default markup in Redmine's wikis and issue tracker. Textile source is written to be converted to HTML, either by Textpattern, Redmine or a standalone library like RedCloth.
Is Textile the same as Markdown?
No. Textile and Markdown are separate lightweight markup languages created around the same time, and their syntax differs throughout, Textile uses codes like h1. for a heading and bq. for a blockquote, where Markdown uses # and >. A file written in one isn't valid in the other.
What software still uses Textile?
Redmine uses Textile as its default wiki and issue-description markup, and it appears in some older installs of Basecamp Classic, Jira and other systems that adopted it during the mid-2000s. Most newer platforms have since standardized on Markdown instead.
What program opens a DokuWiki file?
A DokuWiki page is a plain-text file, so any text editor opens it, but the markup only renders as a formatted page inside a running DokuWiki install. Viewing it as intended means either running DokuWiki or converting the file to a format like HTML or Markdown first.