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Microsoft Teams News: Wiki Page Retiring in January 2024 & There Are Things You Must Do
REVISED: Regarding the Wiki Libraries in SharePoint, the wiki pages will remain on SharePoint. However, the Wiki Page and App are not available in January 2024.
I created a video on exporting the Wiki libraries content to a zip file and opening the pages into a Word file as a BACKUP. It will be available later this week. I will update this post with the link when it is available.
Stay tuned.
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Today the message 'Wiki tabs in channels will go away starting in June 2023. You can export your content to a new Notes tab that will be created for this channel.' with a 'get details' button. After clicking that button you have the option to 'Export to Notes'. Here is some information I will pass along as it's NOT how I wanted my Wiki converted to Notes. For those that maybe didn't realize this and it's important to understand because they are opposite each other....
WIKIs have multiple pages with multiple sections in the page
OneNote has multiple sections with multiple pages in the section
Here's what the exported result was for me:
A site OneNote is created or if already existed it is updated
Each channel Wiki becomes a OneNote Section by the channel name, 'General' for example
Each Wiki page becomes a OneNote page in the OneNote Section
All of the Wiki Sections are inserted 1 after the other in the OneNote page
This may be the desired result, it was not for me. I wanted each channel's content only available in that channel.
My expectation was that a OneNote would be created for each Channel.
Each Wiki page would become a OneNote Section.
Each Wiki section in the page would become a OneNote page in the OneNote Section.
Probably not the best illustration but hopefully it helps to understand what happens.
If my Team and Wikis are like the following before exporting:
They end up like this after exporting:
My links to exported wiki pages/sections were lost. You will need to add those back.
Other links seem to be fine.
Pictures transferred.
It's time consuming but I am splitting out my information into separate OneNotes (1 per channel) recreating the original structure of the Wiki. Reply if you want information on how to do the splitting and I will do my best to describe it.
I also noticed that any conversations that were on the right side of the Wiki page for the entries don't get exported. After the export the Wiki page becomes read only. So you also don't have access to the conversations anymore. Any links or documents in those conversations are then gone. Is there anyway to access this again?
Don't like the structure it becomes in OneNote. Everything is just on one page. The numbering for the content headlines is lost. There is no space or page breaks between the sections. So a lot of edit effort needed to get it back into a readable format.
I think your best bet to get the links back or at least get an idea of where they pointed to would be to download and open in word like @teresa_cyrus describes in this video: https://youtu.be/9BKk2zh1y84.
Keep in mind though once you convert the wiki ALL links to it change because it's not the same or retained.
Dominik_Mayer I agree, this is a horrible solution from Microsoft 😞 We have built all of our manuals inside Wiki with links between wikis etc. All of that will be lost 😞
You might want to do what I did then to get the 'tabs' back. These are the basic steps I did:
- I created a new OneNote tab in the channel where I wanted it to reside.
- I opened both the site OneNote where the wiki exported to and this new OneNote in the app.
- In the new OneNote, create your sections and then copy and paste the 'page' information from the site OneNote to your new OneNote
It's time consuming but nets the results you want.
