Migrating MediaWiki Sites to the Windows Sharepoint Services Wiki

Question

If anyone found a way to transfer MediaWiki pages to WSS Wikis? We're just hosting Sharepoint 2007 and although it seems to meet our needs, it doesn't seem to be the Microsoft tool that brings MediaWiki pages to the Wiki wiki.

Answer 1

Create an aspx file and add the wikipage library page template to the source code, and then go to the Wikipage library from sharepoint 2007 or 2010

Answer 2

Microsoft does not currently provide such a tool.

There is one development though in the SharePoint Community Kit .

Wiki Import / Export Tool

The EWE team is at a very early stage in developing an import / export tool for the SharePoint wiki. The goal is for this tool to be able to import from other wikis such as FlexWiki, MediaWiki and TWiki, and Confluence, as well as from Word and OneNote, and also to export to Word via HTML (per page) and MHTML (all wiki).

For this preliminary release of CKS 2.0, the EWE team provides a fairly stable build of the FlexWiki import tool, for which the source code was donated by Michael Cheng, a developer in the SharePoint product group. This is a one-time tool that will eventually be converted into a plugin for the Wiki Import / Export Tool, so if you are currently using FlexWiki, please test the tool and provide feedback.

Answer 3

I managed to get Twiki in SharePoint. The biggest problem is creating themes / pages programmatically inside SharePoint. I documented my results here: [ http://sites.google.com/site/sharepointwikiuploader/] May save some time.

Answer 4

There is a commercial tool for this: Metalogix migration manager for blogs and Wikis

It is not tested yet, but I will tell about my experience when I do it.

Answer 5

I created a php script that reads an XML file created by Mediawiki dumpBackup.php and uploads text suitable for insertion into new Sharepoint wiki pages. I posted it in google code project. Combined with the Grant Traynor method, this can solve the problem.

Answer 6

You cannot expect even remotely similar functionality from such imported pages. See http://wikiworks.com/enterprise-mediawiki-vs-sharepoint.html for an explanation of why you might want to reconsider this type of migration. You will lose 1. reliable endless version control and archiving. 2. Simple editing of several authors. 3. all the features of the mediawiki extensions, at the end of 2000.

In some companies, for example. insurance, law firms or accounting, loss 1. may have legal consequences.

If your intention is to simply make the pages visible in SharePoint, which are supported in MediaWiki, then you can do this by setting SharePoint to search in the media - by looking at some other issues here on StackExchange.