Bodeker Scientific has converted its project wikis from Wikidot to MediaWiki, and developed Python code to automate the process. The code is open-source, and we’re sharing it in case it’s useful to others!

There are 3 parts to the code:

Part 1

1. Downloading wikis from Wikidot (also useful to those who simply want to back-up their wiki, as Wikidot no longer has this function)

• Code is available at: https://github.com/bodekerscientific/wikidot_tools

Parts 2 & 3

2. Converting Wikidot pages into MediaWiki: Takes the Wikidot files and produces MediaWiki-formatted text files and attachments that are ready to be uploaded to a MediaWiki site.

3. Uploading the converted files to MediaWiki: Uploads the converted pages and files to a MediaWiki site.

• Code is available at: https://github.com/bodekerscientific/wikidot-to-mediawiki