Convert a dokuwiki to mediawiki

This describes how to convert a dokuwiki installation to a mediawiki installation. All history, users and access control lists will not be taken over:

• install mediawiki. In this example we assume you install to /srv/www/htdocs.
• convert the syntax of every dokuwiki page to Mediawiki's syntax. MediaSyntax has a converter for this. Also, this howto has been tested with version 1.16.
• copy every file in dokuwiki's data/pages folder to mediawiki's maintenance folder
• cd to the maintenance folder of your mediawiki, e.g.

cd /srv/www/htdocs/maintenance

• import all text files:

for i in *.imp; do php importTextFile.php $i; done

See also

• How to make dokuwiki a good mediawiki

Comments

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ThorstenStaerk said ...

Very interested in your comments!!!

--ThorstenStaerk 10:40, 4 February 2012 (CET)

Good and helpful article. But, it needs an update:

importTextFile.php has been removed in current versions of MediaWiki. Now, edit.php should be used instead...

Joerg