This tool allows you to migrate your content from Mediawiki to VSTS Wiki. It uses Pandoc for file conversion from mediawiki formats to markdown format and then ensures that links, images, hierarchy, etc. are created based on the VSTS Wiki architecture. Learn more about what is supported in this tool @ migration details

Prerequisites

• sql backup of your media-wiki + images (or a mediawiki without LDAP integration)
• vsts wiki
• git (https://git-scm.com/download/win)
• Pandoc (https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/tag/2.1.3)

For creating sql backup of your existing mediawiki - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Backing_up_a_wiki Also take a backup of all images from: <<media wiki install location>>\images\ [For eg: C:\xampp\htdocs\mediawiki\images]

Steps:

1. In case you need to create a local media wiki server (Optional Step - required if your current media wiki is LDAP integrated, but preferred as it will speed things up)

• creating a mediawiki server
  • Download and install XAMPP, Apache and MySql from https://www.apachefriends.org
  • Download and install 7-Zip from http://www.7-zip.org/download.html
  • Disable UAC from "C:\windows\System32\UserAccountControlSettings.exe"
  • Download MediaWiki package from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download
  • Copy the extracted mediawiki files to \htdocs

Alternately, in your existing mediawiki, you change the LocalSettings.php to open it for public

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = true;

• Backup your existing mediawiki (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Restoring_a_wiki_from_backup#Import_the_database_backup)

  • From the command line using mysqladmin

  mysqladmin -u wikidb_user -p drop wikidb

  Substituting as appropriate for wikidb_user and wikidb. The -p parameter will prompt you for the password.

• Then to create a new database:

  mysqladmin -u wikidb_user -p create wikidb

  - To import dump_of_wikidb.sql from the command line you simply do:

  mysql -u wikidb_user -p wikidb < dump_of_wikidb.sql

2. Run the script with the following parameters:

   -mediWikiUrl : Your media wiki url for which credentails are provided/open wiki <format: http://localhost:8080/mediawiki>,

   -imageDiskPath : Your image backup location <format: C:\xampp\htdocs\mediawiki\images>,

   -u : mediawiki username <format: alias>,

   -p : mediawiki password,

   -o : output directory on disk <format: C:\anylocation>,

   -vstsWikiRemoteUrl : vsts wiki clone url <format: https://myacct.visualstudio.com/proj/_git/proj.wiki>,

   -pandocPath :path where pandoc.exe resides <format: C:\pandoc>,

   -vstsUserName : vsts username (Please provide PAT token when asked for password),

   -originalmMediaWikiUrl : mediawiki absolute url(can be different from mediawiki url provided above - to change absolute urls in content) <format: https://mywiki.com/index.php\?title=>,

Note: Powershell has a limit of 260 characters for path. so good to have smaller path lenths