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MEDIAWIKI → DOKUWIKI
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Fast, secure MEDIAWIKI to DOKUWIKI conversion. No registration required.
Setup: MEDIAWIKI is a document format oriented around a particular office suite or publishing pipeline. Goal: an interchangeable DOKUWIKI. If you are staring at a MEDIAWIKI and need a clean DOKUWIKI, retyping is never the answer — our converter routes the file through LibreOffice in headless mode and pandoc for text formats, which is the same pair of tools professional publishers rely on. Styles, tables, bullets and images all make it across. Context: MEDIAWIKI is a document format oriented around a particular office suite or publishing pipeline. DOKUWIKI is a document format oriented around a particular office suite or publishing pipeline.
MediaWiki Markup
Source formatMediaWiki markup is the wikitext syntax used by Wikipedia and thousands of MediaWiki-powered wikis. It provides formatting for links, tables, templates, categories, and references, powering one of the largest collaborative content systems.
DokuWiki Markup
Target formatDokuWiki markup is the wiki syntax used by the DokuWiki engine, a popular flat-file wiki that requires no database. Its syntax is designed for simplicity, storing all content as plain text files with intuitive formatting conventions.
Why convert MEDIAWIKI to DOKUWIKI
MEDIAWIKI and DOKUWIKI both describe paginated text, but they target different parts of the document life cycle. MEDIAWIKI is usually editable; DOKUWIKI is usually final. Converting is about moving from editing to distribution (or the other way round) without losing headings, styles, tables or embedded images along the way.
HOW TO CONVERT
MEDIAWIKI → DOKUWIKI
Upload your MEDIAWIKI
Drop the document onto the uploader. We transfer over HTTPS and keep the file in an isolated processing container.
Render with LibreOffice
LibreOffice opens the MEDIAWIKI headlessly and writes it as DOKUWIKI with styles, tables and images mapped across.
Download the DOKUWIKI
The DOKUWIKI is ready to download; typography, pagination and embedded assets match what you saw in the source.
Common Use Cases
Share across platforms
Send DOKUWIKI files to anyone without worrying about whether they have the right software for MEDIAWIKI.
Embed in documents
Drop DOKUWIKI output into Word, Google Docs, PowerPoint, Notion or a website without conversion warnings.
Optimize size
DOKUWIKI often produces smaller files than MEDIAWIKI for web, email and storage.
Archive & future-proof
Store in a widely-supported format that will still open on future operating systems without legacy plugins.
MEDIAWIKI vs DOKUWIKI — Strengths and limitations
What each format does best, and where it falls short.
MEDIAWIKI Strengths
- Powers Wikipedia — battle-tested at planet scale.
- Templates enable reusable content blocks.
- Internal links, categories, and interwiki references work out of the box.
- Huge existing tooling and translation ecosystem.
Limitations
- Parsing is notoriously hard — context-sensitive by design.
- Authoring requires learning the unique syntax.
- Lacks standardization — no formal spec, just the MediaWiki implementation.
DOKUWIKI Strengths
- No database — just flat files.
- Easy syntax.
- Git-friendly.
- Simple self-hosting.
Limitations
- Scales poorly past ~10 000 pages.
- Smaller community than MediaWiki.
- Limited standardization.
MEDIAWIKI vs DOKUWIKI — Technical specifications
Side-by-side comparison of the technical details.
MEDIAWIKI
- MIME type
- text/x-wiki
- Extensions
- .mediawiki, .wiki
- Parser
- MediaWiki core + Parsoid (HTML)
- Encoding
- UTF-8
- Canonical user
- Wikipedia + Wikimedia sister projects
DOKUWIKI
- MIME type
- text/x-dokuwiki
- Extension
- .dokuwiki, .txt (stored)
- Native engine
- DokuWiki (PHP)
| Specification | MEDIAWIKI | DOKUWIKI |
|---|---|---|
| MIME type | text/x-wiki | text/x-dokuwiki |
| Extensions | .mediawiki, .wiki | — |
| Parser | MediaWiki core + Parsoid (HTML) | — |
| Encoding | UTF-8 | — |
| Canonical user | Wikipedia + Wikimedia sister projects | — |
| Extension | — | .dokuwiki, .txt (stored) |
| Native engine | — | DokuWiki (PHP) |
MEDIAWIKI vs DOKUWIKI — Typical file sizes
Approximate file sizes for common scenarios.
MEDIAWIKI
- Short Wikipedia article source 5-30 KB
- Long Wikipedia article with templates 50-300 KB
- Full Wikipedia XML dump ~20 GB compressed
DOKUWIKI
- Typical wiki page 2-50 KB
Quality & Compatibility
LibreOffice handles the heavy lifting and maps the overwhelming majority of MEDIAWIKI features to their DOKUWIKI equivalents. Standard system fonts (Arial, Calibri, Times, Helvetica) transfer exactly; corporate or custom fonts are substituted with the closest available match, which can shift line breaks by a character or two. Inline images embed at original resolution.
Tips for Best Results
- Embed fonts in the MEDIAWIKI before uploading if you use non-system fonts — it guarantees the DOKUWIKI renders identically on any viewer.
- Check tables, figure captions and page headers after conversion; complex layouts occasionally need a minor nudge in the target application.
- For documents with a table of contents, refresh the TOC field after opening the DOKUWIKI so page numbers reflect the new pagination.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, as long as the fonts are standard (system fonts or common office fonts like Arial, Calibri, Times, Helvetica). Custom corporate fonts survive if they are embedded in the source document; otherwise the conversion substitutes the closest available match, which can shift line breaks by a character or two.
Yes. Inline images are embedded into the DOKUWIKI at full resolution, editable tables become native DOKUWIKI tables, and hyperlinks keep their URLs. Complex features unique to MEDIAWIKI — macros, form fields, track-changes — are mapped where an equivalent exists in DOKUWIKI and flattened into static content otherwise.
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