Jan 17 2020 05:15 AM
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
Jan 17 2020 05:22 AM
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
Jan 17 2020 08:01 AM
Aug 11 2021 02:26 AM - edited Aug 11 2021 02:31 AM
I have the same question and found an migration tool. I know I am late, but maybe it helps? @MikhailPodolski
How to migrate MediaWiki to Microsoft SharePoint Online or Office 365 - YouTube
Feb 06 2022 10:01 AM
Feb 06 2022 04:39 PM
Mar 22 2022 10:52 AM
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.
Sep 26 2022 12:18 AM
@Codepro 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.
Oct 20 2022 10:03 AM
Do you know anyone made working to transfer MediaWiki pages to SharePoint?
Thank you in advance
Allyson
Oct 23 2022 04:59 PM - edited Oct 23 2022 05:01 PM
not specifically MediaWiki, but from a few other systems into SharePoint online.
Essentially the process is using PowerShell PnP, but not the Transformation framework, I kinda developed my own I guess
1. Iterate through every page on system
2. For each page
2.1 Get HTML > Transform HTML to be compatible with SharePoint HTML (find and replace styling, html elements)
2.2 Create a new page in SharePoint Online from base page template using details of page from source system
2.3 Upload transformed HTML into Text webpart sections of new page created
3 - Manually remediate pages where needed
Doing this gets 50% of the job done for migrating all the pages and content, them it a whole bunch of clean up work to manually be done - SharePoint Online just doesn't support a whole bunch of standard html and also with limitations of images embedding an the like
Oct 26 2022 11:43 AM
Oct 27 2022 04:13 AM
@awu37111 For this customer we installed MediaWiki in Azure with Azure Active Directory integration. Tell me if you need help.
Feb 23 2023 07:44 AM
@Codepro , Can you send me a email to my work email: email address removed for privacy reasons. I do need some help. Thank you, Allyson
Feb 23 2023 08:31 AM
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