Hi,I was wondering about Mediawiki's portability to other wiki platforms. We were asked to find out about Mediawiki's portability to other wiki platforms in a course project.Does the import to other wiki platform depend on a platform, or is it possible to just take a SQL and XML dumps and import those to some other wiki platform?Is there any guide/manual for this kind of operation?TBH I would use Mediawiki in this project, since I find it as the best solution for this project, but I was asked to find out how we can move Mediawiki to some other platform would work in case we have to :)-Juuso Sormunen
Hi Juuso!
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:28 AM, juke - zarozi@hotmail.com wrote:
Does the import to other wiki platform depend on a platform, or is it possible to just take a SQL and XML dumps and import those to some other wiki platform?
It depends on the platform. There are all sorts of scripts floating around for converting from one type of wiki software to another, but they're often outdated and unmaintained (conversion is something you hope never to have to do twice!).[0]
MediaWiki lets you export your data; beyond that, portability is up to the application you're trying to convert _to_. If you want to find out whether you can easily convert MediaWiki to some other software, you'd want to ask the developers of that software.[1]
[0] For a sample lying around on MediaWiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Data_exchange_with_other_systems [1] For, say, Confluence, you'd look at https://migrations.atlassian.net/wiki/display/UWC/Universal+Wiki+Converter
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