Anyone recently migrated their wiki from dokuwiki from Confluence?
Asked by jira guy:

I found few questions and article dating back few years. So would like to know if there is a better way. Any challenges you faced during the migration? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in Advance

Sri


Answers:
author: Diego
body: Hello there Sri!

Well, each migration is a one off effort. Other admins experience with this can be quite useful indeed!

In the meantime, you could start by taking a look at the Universal Wiki Converter. The UWC is an tool aimed at migrating content from other wikis into Confluence. This tool involves scripting, coding and possibly some consulting on your end.

This tool, is by no means, a "one-click" procedure. This can help you to migrate content, but will not do everything for you.

Here are some links to UWC:

**[Universal Wiki Converter - Overview](https://migrations.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/UWC/overview?mode=global)**

**[Universal Wiki Converter - Installation](https://migrations.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/UWC/pages/1015864/UWC+Installation#UWCInstallation-Prerequisites)**

Also, there is a section that tackles the DokuWiki migration. Here you will have more details on it:

**[Universal Wiki Converter - DokuWiki Notes](https://migrations.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/UWC/pages/1015845/UWC+DokuWiki+Notes)**

Hope this information helps you to kick-start this migration Sri!

comments: author: jira guy
body: Thanks for the response. After reading few articles online, this is where I have started. It works for most part.

1. I am having problem with attachments. They are being uploaded correctly but when I hit edit, it is shown as unknown attachment.

2. Full links to my wiki are not converted to confluence format.

eg. mywiki.com/abc to confluence.com/abc

3. Also, unsure how to address same page titles

Let me know what you think.


author: jira guy
body: Toggling Collaborative Editing on to off and back on resolved the attachments issue.


author: jira guy
body: [@Diego](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1188952)

Would you know how to set creator name and time through Confluence API?


author: jira guy
body: We finished our migration using UWC to latest confluence version. They were some hand banging issues. In the end, everyone is happy with the migration.

We didn't import history of pages or creator/creation times.


author: GrandmaBetty
body: I am trying to convert our Dokuwiki to Confluence. Unfortunately the links provided above are not accessible anymore.

I've set up UWC and a temporary local instance of confluence.

The conversion indeed works but I have a major problem.

In Dokuwiki, from the main start page on, we have many subpages which have their own start page within a subfolder, e.g.:

    pages?   start.txt    ?????subfolder1    ?   start.txt    ?    ????subfolder2            start.txt

Now the problem is, UWC seems not to detect those different *start.txt* files as subpages, instead it puts all of them into the root of confluence workspace so the Dokuwiki root *start.txt* will be converted and then overwritten by the converted subfolder1 *start.txt* which will then be overwritten by the converted subfolder2 *start.txt*.

The result is that confluence has only a single converted *start.txt.*

Is there any way we can avoid this behaviour? I know UWC is not a one-in-all solution but I cannot believe that UWC is that limited either.

Thank you in advance.


author: Christian D?hn
body: Here the problem of the non-unique start.txt was solved:

<https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/DC/DokuWiki+To+Confluence+Migration>


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