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MikhailPodolski
Brass Contributor
Jan 17, 2020

What is the best way to migrate content from Mediawiki to SharePoint modern sites

My question might seem way too generic but I am trying to start somewhere

We have some content in Mediawiki CMS/Server, and we are trying to migrate this content to our modern SharePoint site

What is the best and the most optimal way to do it?

We did try a product called Metalogic, but that product is not perfect and has some limitations as it migrates to classic SharePoint sites, not modern

We did consider the ShareGate tools, but those tools have some limitations as well

Would anyone recommend a most optimal approach to resolve this task?

Thank you everyone in advance

  • KjoniX's avatar
    KjoniX
    Copper Contributor

    How did you solve this MikhailPodolski? I'm where you were in 2020. So far I look into create MediaWiki in Azure instead of migrate 3000 wikipages from MediaWiki onPrem to Sharepoint. I'm afraid users will not be happy with SP as wiki platform. 

    • TorIver's avatar
      TorIver
      Copper Contributor

      KjoniX You could in theory add a "classic" Wiki library even to a modern site, that supports much of the formatting (if I recall correctly) but looks strange in a modern context to use.

    • awu37111's avatar
      awu37111
      Copper Contributor

      Warwick Ward

      Do you know anyone made working to transfer MediaWiki pages to SharePoint?

       

      Thank you in advance

      Allyson 

      • KjoniX's avatar
        KjoniX
        Copper Contributor

        awu37111 For this customer we installed MediaWiki in Azure with Azure Active Directory integration. Tell me if you need help.

  • SNobles's avatar
    SNobles
    Copper Contributor
    I, too, would like to know the answer to this! Thank you for submitting it, even if nobody ever answers us.
  • Andrew Hodges's avatar
    Andrew Hodges
    Bronze Contributor

    Hi MikhailPodolski ,

     

    ShareGate will migrate documents no problem into SharePoint,  I have used it on 10+ successful projects. 

     

    I guess the question is what format is the data you are trying to import into SharePoint, I would have though there isnt a tool that connects direct to MediaWiki to  copy the data across so are you exporting the data to documents?

     

    Andy

    • MikhailPodolski's avatar
      MikhailPodolski
      Brass Contributor

      Andrew Hodges 

       

      MediaWiki has a data transfer extension to export its content in XML format only. We are researching for other options to transfer the content from MediaWiki to modern SP pages directly if possible, but so far we haven't found any. One option we have on the table could be transferring the content from MediaWiki to classic SP pages using Metalogix, and then transferring again those classic pages to modern SP pages using ShareGate.
       
      Any suggestions are highly appreciated!
       
      Thanks.

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