Migration from XWiki to Confluence - tips and tricks?

[Victoria Rowe]

Has anyone here done a migration from XWiki to Confluence (in particular, Data Center)?

I found a tool, WikiLumper, here

It would be good to get any feedback about that particular tool or if you have used other methods to lift and reseat content.

Thanks in advance.

[Artem Fomin - DevOps Action · Accepted solution]

We have completed a couple of XWiki-to-Confluence migrations using Universal Wiki Converter. It's somewhat tricky, but worked for us.

https://valiantys.com/en/blog/agility/universal-wiki-converter-transfer-wiki-content-confluence/

https://github.com/AtlassianContribs/universal-wiki-converter

[Per Hallenborg]

To add on the questions on WikiLumper. Tried it and it ran some lines but then got stuck on some issue and just stayed there. No syntax erroe or anything, just stopped in the middle. Had to kill it. Any ideas?

(tried to run UWC but never got it straight)

Output:

Found attachment: /root/wiki/data/media//it/projekt/big/presentationslager/qliksense/user_acc_allocate_deallocate.png on page Create-Users
Found attachment: /root/wiki/data/media//it/projekt/big/presentationslager/qliksense/login_acc_allocate_deallocate.png on page Create-Users
/\^ Match 3 \^ de_train \^\^ de_dust2 \|\| \|/||Match 3||de_train||||de_dust2 ||||/
/\^ Match 2 \^ de_dust2 \^\^ de_aztec \|\| \|/||Match 2||de_dust2||||de_aztec ||||/
/\^ Match 1 \^ de_dust2 \^\^ de_dust2 \|\| \|/||Match 1||de_dust2||||de_dust2 ||||/
^C

[Kavitha]

No luck from my side, I got stuck with some syntax error on line #115 while trying to use the tool - Wikilumper. If any information on the migration from XWiki to Confluence will be highly appreciated

[Antoine _Klee Group_]

How did you run the tool? It worked fine on a set of few pages that I have tried.

[Kavitha]

Hi Antoine, I have tried that from Padre IDE.. And this is the error I have got:

Bareword found where operator expected at Export/xwiki.pm line 115, near "s/__\s*(.+?)\s*__/\+$1\+/gd"
Could not load xwiki.pm. Error Message: syntax error at Export/xwiki.pm line 115, near "s/__\s*(.+?)\s*__/\+$1\+/gd"
Compilation failed in require at migrate.pl line 23.

Press any key to continue . . .

Please let me know if I am missing anything, Thanks

[Antoine _Klee Group_]

That seems to be due to the substitutions.

I suggest you to try the WikiLumper with a Linux system (it worked fine for me on Windows Subsystem for Linux), make sure that all the required Perl's packages are installed.

[Kavitha]

Good idea, I will try. Thanks again. Antoine!