Community Central:Moving your wiki to FANDOM

We welcome anyone wanting to move a wiki to Wikia.

For reasons you may want to move your wiki, see why use Wikia?

Feel free to contact us for help with importing a wiki to a new or existing Wikia site. We have a lot of experience with this, so there's no need to be concerned about such a move. Both large and small wikis have moved to Wikia. Larger examples include Memory Alpha, Uncyclopedia, Halopedia, and Gameinfo. A few of the smaller wikis that have moved to Wikia include The Official Rocketboom Wiki, Ars Magica, Animal Crisis Team, RLDS, Xfce, and the Indonesian Mac Wiki.

If you want to give a large wiki community a stable home, then Wikia can provide that. If you have a small but active wiki community looking for the benefits of being part of Wikia, we can help you through every stage of the move, which is often very easy to do. If you just want to save a small dead wiki, we can help you to instantly import that into an existing Wikia site (see the GameCube Linux section for an example).

How to move a small GFDL MediaWiki
If you have a small wiki (fewer than 300 pages) that is already running on MediaWiki and licensed under the GFDL, the move will be very simple.


 * 1) Use Special:Export to export a list of the pages you want to move
 * 2) Save this file and import it to the new wiki using Special:Import
 * 3) Users can then make new accounts at Wikia (for large communities, see the section below instead where this won't be necessary).

How to move a large GFDL MediaWiki
If you have a larger wiki (more than 300 pages) that is already running on MediaWiki and licensed under the GFDL, the move is fairly simple.


 * 1) Send the content and user databases to Wikia. The content will be imported and the users merged with the existing Wikia user database (allowing single login to over 2000 wikis)

How to move a non-GFDL wiki
If you wiki was unlicensed or licensed under a non-free license, you need to ask users to (re)license their content. This can be done on a wiki sign up page, or by contacting each user. Rare exceptions are made at Wikia to accommodate non-free content if the wiki is extremely large (Uncyclopedia for example).

PBWiki
A script can be run to import a PBWiki into MediaWiki.

WakkaWiki
A script can be run to import a WakkaWiki into MediaWiki. See User:Angela/WakkaWiki for differences in syntax.

MoinMoin
At least two scripts exist to convert from MoinMoin to MediaWiki. Both need you to clean up after them by hand.


 * mm2mw.pl Perl script - outputs Mediawiki wikitext.
 * Breaks all CamelCase into Sentence Case - including in the middle of external links.
 * moin2media Python script created by the Linux Foundation for in-house use. Outputs importable Mediawiki XML.
 * Breaks some external links the way mm2mw does, but not most.
 * Doesn't preserve multiple levels of bullet points.

See summary on mediawiki-l.

UseMod
MediaWiki includes a maintenance script to convert from UseMod.

PHPWiki
See mediawiki.org for various ways of converting from PHPWiki.

Other wikis
If there are a small number of pages, Wikians and Wikia staff may be able to help with manual conversions from other forms of wiki syntax. If you know of any other automated converters, please list them on this page.

How to move from a non-wiki site
Static websites that are not yet wikis can be converted to wikis.

HTML can be converted to wiki markup using this html2wiki site. Scripts also exist to convert from CSV, Word, and Excel.

See also OpenWetWare's guide to converting documents to mediawiki markup and Wikipedia's conversion utilities.