Wikia:Moving your wiki to Wikia/Scripts
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Please see the Moving your wiki to Wikia page for details. This page lists scripts which Wikia can use to help you move a non-MediaWiki site to Wikia.
[edit] Scripts for converting from a non-MediaWiki site
- PBworks
A script can be run to import a PBworks (formerly PBWiki) into MediaWiki.
- WakkaWiki
A script can be run to import a WakkaWiki into MediaWiki.
- MoinMoin
At least two scripts exist to convert from MoinMoin to MediaWiki. Please see this page on mediawiki.org for details.
- UseMod
MediaWiki includes a maintenance script to convert from UseMod.
- PHPWiki
See mediawiki.org for various ways of converting from PHPWiki.
- KWiki
This page has a conversion script from KWiki
- Other wiki software
If there are a small number of pages, Wikians and Wikia staff may be able to help with manual conversions from other forms of wiki syntax. If you know of any other automated converters, please list them on this page.
See also MediaWiki.org's data exchange category which includes pages for converting from MoinMoin, TWiki, and others. OpenWetWare has a guide to converting documents to mediawiki markup. Wikipedia has a list of conversion utilities. This blog post lists other conversion tools.
- Static websites
HTML can be converted to wiki markup using this html2wiki site.
- mw:Manual:ImportTextFile.php can be used to import text files.
