Has anyone managed to migrate TWiki/FOSWiki to Confluence 5.X without spending thousands?

Desiree' Abbott

My company is consolidating to a single Wiki platform, and my team is coming from FOSWiki (aka TWiki).  We have about 800 pages and I need to preserve links, inline images, attachments, formatting, and page hierarchy.  Theoretically the UWC is supposed to do this but it is no longer supported and doesn't work with Confluence 5 - it completely breaks when there is any HTML on the page.  We're a small team so we can't afford to pay thousands to tens of thousands for this service.  

Any ideas would be GREATLY appreciated.

John Kern

My company went through this.  We consolidated 3 different TWiki's into Confluence.  It was a massive undertaking dealing with 30,000+ pages.

UWC gets you started.  But it was NOT enough.  And you are right - it crashes all of the time.  I realized there were lots of broken links, poorly formatted items, and I could identify what was going to cause it to crash.

So I wrote a PERL parser that took the TWiki files and cleaned them up before I ran it through the UWC. It only worked on one WEB at a time.  After each new WEB I imported, I would go back and tighten my rules and add new items that found that it did not format well.  Lots of regular expressions.

 

The Parser:

1) The output of my parser had three possible directories: NoChanges, AutoCorrect, Review.

2) I would then spend time on the Review directory and hand edit those files and/or import them and watch UWC crash as I imported into a TEMPORARY space.

3) Once I was happy all of my TWiki to Confluence files, I would import into new SPACE.  I would then  review and possible hand edit some of the remaining files.  Mainly hyperlinking files from new space to other already created spaces.

 

Yea - Lots of work.  But we ended up with a very good product.

Good luck.