Wikispaces

Wikispaces is one of the major wiki hosts (claims to have over 1.5 million wikis and 10 million users) with a mix of free and paid plans, and a focus on K-12 education. The site will close down in 2018 (on July 31 for free wikis, at the end of the year for paid ones), leaving most of those users scrambling for a new host to migrate to. MediaWiki might be one of the better options, but right now there is little tooling and no documentation. Let's change that!

Migration tools

 * Wikispaces markup is vaguely similar to MediaWiki markup - trying to import it directly will break the content, but not horribly (links, lists, sections will continue to work).
 * importWikispaces.php is a migration script in the form of a MediaWiki maintenance script; it can import pages with full history, users and images and files. To use it, copy it to a MediaWiki installation's  directory, and issue the following:
 * Apparently in the current form only works with paid spaces and has a couple shortcomings - see discussion here.
 * Apparently in the current form only works with paid spaces and has a couple shortcomings - see discussion here.

For creating or finding a wiki, see Manual:Installing MediaWiki and Hosting services. For finding paid help, see Professional development and consulting.

Feature matching

 * Wikitext features:
 * basic text formatting, links, anchors, images, tables are supported by default MediaWiki (see Manual:Configuring file uploads).
 * Syntax highlight -> Extension:SyntaxHighlight
 * References -> Extension:Cite (uses same syntax)
 * RSS feeds -> Extension:RSS
 * Variables -> Help:Magic words
 * Including the contents of another wiki page -> Help:Templates
 * Mathematics -> Extension:Math
 * Widgets -> TBD
 * Visual editing -> Extension:VisualEditor

TODO More Wikispaces feature lists:

Related discussion

 * Wikispaces-Refugees.groups.io