Migrate Dokuwiki data to MediaWiki import data

This is a command line tool to convert the contents of a Dokuwiki into a MediaWiki import data format.

Prerequisites

1. PHP >= 8.2 with the xml extension must be installed
2. pandoc >= 3.1.6. The pandoc tool must be installed and available in the PATH (https://pandoc.org/installing.html).

Installation

1. Download migrate-dokuwiki.phar from https://github.com/hallowelt/migrate-dokuwiki/releases/latest/download/migrate-dokuwiki.phar
2. Make sure the file is executable. E.g. by running chmod +x migrate-dokuwiki.phar
3. Move migrate-dokuwiki.phar to /usr/local/bin/migrate-dokuwiki (or somewhere else in the PATH)

Workflow

Prepare migration

1. Create a directory for the migration source (e.g. /tmp/migration/input/ ).
2. Create a working directory for the migration (e.g. /tmp/migration/workspace/ ).
3. Copy the dokuwiki data directory from dokuwiki to /tmp/migration/workspace/input.
4. Remove unused directories before copying. Only attic,media, media-attic, media-meta, meta, pages, can be used for migration. attic and media-attic contain older versions and are not required for migration.
5. If attic versions should be migrated all archived versions have to be extracted (e.g. find . -name "*.gz" -exec gunzip {} \; on linux systems).

Migrate the contents

From the parent directory (e.g. /tmp/migration/ ) run the migration commands

1. Run migrate-dokuwiki analyze --src input/ --dest workspace/ to create "working files". After the script has run you can check those files and maybe apply changes if required (e.g. when applying structural changes).
2. Run migrate-dokuwiki extract --src input/ --dest workspace/ to extract all contents, like wikipage contents, attachments and images into the workspace
3. Run migrate-dokuwiki convert --src workspace/ --dest workspace/ (yes, --src workspace/ ) to convert the wikipage contents from Confluence Storage XML to MediaWiki WikiText
4. Run migrate-dokuwiki compose --src workspace/ --dest workspace/ (yes, --src workspace/ ) to create importable data

If you re-run the scripts you will need to clean up the "workspace" directory!

Import into MediaWiki

1. Copy the diretory "workspace/result" directory (e.g. /tmp/migration/workspace/result/) to your target wiki server (e.g. /tmp/result)
2. Go to your MediaWiki installation directory
3. Make sure you have the target namespaces set up properly. See workspace/namespaces-map.php for reference.
4. Make sure $wgFileExtensions is setup properly. See workspace/result/images for reference.
5. Move the workspace/result directory to your MediaWiki server (e.g. /tmp ).
6. Use php maintenance/importImages.php /tmp/result/images/ to first import all attachment files and images
7. Use php maintenance/importDump.php /tmp/result/output.xml to import the actual pages

You may need to update your MediaWiki search index afterwards.