Migrate from old mediawiki to Confluence cloud

[Saif Mashal]

I have been searching for a while in a way I could migrate around 800 pages from MediaWiki (self-hosted) to the confluence Cloud.

any suggestion, or has anyone had experience with the same before?

[Philipp Sendek]

Hi @Saif Mashal ,

welcome to the community and great to hear that you're planning to migrate from MediaWiki to Confluence.

I personally don't have experience with it or a silver bullet at hand, but I would recommend to give the bulk HTML import a try.

You can start the process by selecting "Spaces" from the main menu and selecting "Import from other tools".
There you can import a zip file including HTML files. Depending on whether MediaWiki offers an export of plain HTML, this could be what you're looking for.

If that doesn't work, you could either build a script (maybe with the help of AI) to either export the MediaWiki pages in the desired format or perform the import to Confluence via REST API straight from MediaWiki.

I hope that helps and wish you success with this process and fun with Confluence Cloud!

Greetings
Philipp

[davesoft11]

Will the HTML import include all the images and attachments?

[Philipp Sendek]

Hi @davesoft11 ,

I haven't had to test the HTML import myself, so I don't know for sure. But I think it stated that images would've been taken over - not sure about attachments thought. But having an export from MediaWiki or somewhere else, it doesn't hurt to just try.

If this doesn't do it, the question is whether it's still enough or what other options you have and how complete they are.
As there is no official importer for MediaWiki, any - non-coding option - might be incomplete...

Greetings
Philipp