Revision as of 09:26, 4 February 2012

To convert a dokuwiki installation to a mediawiki installation:

Mediawiki

install mediawiki. In this example we assume you install to /srv/www/htdocs.
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

php importTextFile.php import.txt

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 = Mediawiki =
-* install mediawiki
+* install mediawiki. In this example we assume you install to /srv/www/htdocs.
-* create a page hello with the sole content ''hello world''.
+* copy every file in dokuwiki's data/pages folder to mediawiki's maintenance folder
-* export the hello page
-* save the export file to export1 and export2
-* edit export1, delete all content starting from ''hello world'' including
-* edit export2, delete all content till ''hello world'' including
-* for every dokuwiki page in data/pages, do a
- cat export1 ''page'' export2 > import.xml
 * cd to the maintenance folder of your mediawiki, e.g.
   cd ''/srv/www/htdocs/maintenance''
+* import all text files:
   php importTextFile.php import.txt
 = See also =
 * [[How to make dokuwiki a good mediawiki]]