Migrating from MoinMoin to MediaWiki

Due to popular demand, i recently had to migrate from MoinMoin to MediaWiki. Urgh!! Lots of work - formatting, uploading, versions etc. Luckily, some folks at w3c have gone through this before and created a nice little script that takes care of all this :)

Here goes my session

$ perl mm2mw.pl home/wiki/techwiki

mmTOmw : Copyright (c) Rotan Hanrahan 2007,2008.

This is free software under the W3C License. See source for details.

http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231

src = home/wiki/techwiki/data

dst = home/wiki/techwiki-mw

URL = http://test.example.com/mediawiki/index.php

mmURL = http://www.w3.org/YYYY/GroupName/wiki/

Split = 1000000

Type '?' for help

mmTOmw>

mmTOmw> analyse

src = home/wiki/techwiki/data

dst = home/wiki/techwiki-mw

URL = http://test.example.com/mediawiki/index.php

mmURL = http://www.w3.org/YYYY/GroupName/wiki/

Split = 1000000

Analysis:

53 wiki pages to be ported.

0 wiki pages are deleted and not to be ported.

271 revisions in total to be ported.

8 attachments to be ported.

0 users recorded in the moinmoin logs.

mmTOmw> convert

Generated 1V0Z33J

Generated 4SL341J

Generated .....

.....

Generated xenServerPrototypePage

Conversion complete.

Convertion took 2 seconds.

Quit and have a look at the files created (Interactive upload failed for me :( )

$ cat home/wiki/techwiki-mw/instructions.txt

# To upload the XML files to MediaWiki, log in as Sysop and go to 'Special:Import' page.

Pages for importing to the target MediaWiki server are:

1V0Z33J

4SL341J

.....

Navigating to MediaWiki's special:Import page and uploading the xml works like a charm.

Beautiful!