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. This howto has been successfully tested with MediaWiki 1.16 and 1.19.1.

• 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

See also

• How to make dokuwiki a good mediawiki

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