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This describes how to convert a [[dokuwiki]] installation to a [[mediawiki]] installation. All history, users and access control lists will not be taken over. This howto has been successfully tested with MediaWiki 1.16 and 1.19.1.
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This describes how to convert a [[dokuwiki]] installation to a [[mediawiki]] installation. All history, users and access control lists will not be taken over. This howto has been successfully tested with MediaWiki 1.16 and 1.19.1. For MediaWiki versions newer than 1.23.x, it will need an update; in these newer versions, <code>importTextFile.php</code> no longer is there and [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Edit.php edit.php] has to be used instead.
  
 
* install mediawiki. In this example we assume you install to /srv/www/htdocs.
 
* install mediawiki. In this example we assume you install to /srv/www/htdocs.
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Greetings,
 
 
 
  I'm new to wiki world ... can someone share exactly what it means up above where the documentation says:
 
 
      "All history, users and access control lists will not be taken over"
 
 
      In other words ... how much work would we lose and/or have to reconstruct?
 
 
      Could you email answer to george@touchthismedia.com? 
 
 
 
Sincerely, George
 
 
George Zeigler
 
 
MBA, Website Consultant
 

Latest revision as of 22:48, 30 October 2015

This describes how to convert a dokuwiki installation to a mediawiki installation. All history, users and access control lists will not be taken over. This howto has been successfully tested with MediaWiki 1.16 and 1.19.1. For MediaWiki versions newer than 1.23.x, it will need an update; in these newer versions, importTextFile.php no longer is there and edit.php has to be used instead.

  • 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.
  • cd to the maintenance folder of your mediawiki, e.g.
cd /srv/www/htdocs/maintenance
  • import all text files from dokuwiki, e.g.:
for i in /srv/www/htdocs/dokuwiki/data/pages/*; do php importTextFile.php $i; done
  • now you will want to care about subdirectories, images and files in the dokuwiki as well

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