I need to move hundreds of pages from version 5.5.4 to version 3.5.3, how do I re-enable wiki markup in 5.5.4 to make this easier??

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I have been tasked with moving hundreds of pages (many of which contain images and attachments) to our in-house maintained version of Confluence.  If I could get wikimarkup back working on version 5.4.5, that would really help the transition.

Thank you.

MattS · Answer

That's tricky. You could use the xml rpc API to extract the XHTML data from 5x and the reformat it to the old wiki markup and then use an old API to import it. But if it's only a few hundred pages it's going to be quicker to cut and paste. Honest.

Robert Massaioli _Atlassian_ · Answer

Nick is right. It won't work. We explicitly block downgrades like this because you can't test imports from future releases against old releases at the time you make the old release.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

It's not an upgrade, it's a downgrade!

XML and HTML exports of a space might be worth a try, but I don't know if a 5.4 export is anywhere near somethign version 3 can read.