+20100428 - I just wrote a simple ruby script which will connect to a mysql server and then recreate the pages and their revision histories with Grit. It also does one simple conversion of equals titles to pounds. Enjoy!
+
+<http://github.com/docunext/mediawiki2gitikiwiki>
+
+-- [[users/Albert]]
+
+----
+
The u32 page is excellent, but I wonder if documenting the procedure here
would be worthwhile. Who knows, the remote site might disappear. But also
there are some variations on the approach that might be useful:
-- [[users/Jon]]
+----
+
> "Who knows, the remote site might disappear.". Right now, it appears to
> have done just that. -- [[users/Jon]]
+I have manage to recover most of the site using the Internet Archive. What
+I was unable to retrieve I have rewritten. You can find a copy of the code
+at <http://github.com/mithro/media2iki>
+
+> This is excellent news. However, I'm still keen on there being a
+> comprehensive and up-to-date set of instructions on *this* site. I wouldn't
+> suggest importing that material into ikiwiki like-for-like (not least for
+> [[licensing|freesoftware]] reasons), but it's excellent to have it available
+> for reference, especially since it (currently) is the only set of
+> instructions that gives you the whole history.
+>
+> The `mediawiki.pm` that was at u32.net is licensed GPL-2. I'd like to see it
+> cleaned up and added to IkiWiki proper (although I haven't requested this
+> yet, I suspect the way it (ab)uses linkify would disqualify it at present).
+>
+> I've imported Scott's initial `mediawiki.pm` into a repository at
+> <http://github.com/jmtd/mediawiki.pm> as a start.
+> -- [[Jon]]
+
+----
The iki-fast-load ruby script from the u32 page is given below:
pipe.puts
end
+> Would be nice to know where you could get "node-callbacks"... this thing is useless without it. --[[users/simonraven]]
+
Mediawiki.pm - A plugin which supports mediawiki format.
}
- # Called to handle bookmarks like [[#heading]] or <span class="createlink"><a href="http://u32.net/cgi-bin/ikiwiki.cgi?page=%20text%20&from=Mediawiki_Plugin%2Fmediawiki&do=create" rel="nofollow">?</a>#a</span>
+ # Called to handle bookmarks like
\[[#heading]] or <span class="createlink"><a href="http://u32.net/cgi-bin/ikiwiki.cgi?page=%20text%20&from=Mediawiki_Plugin%2Fmediawiki&do=create" rel="nofollow">?</a>#a</span>
sub generate_fragment_link
{
my $url = shift;
# Ikiwiki's link link plugin wrecks this line when displaying on the site.
# Until the code highlighter plugin can turn off link finding,
- # always escape double brackets in double quotes: [[
+ # always escape double brackets in double quotes: \[[
if($inlink eq '..') {
- # Mediawiki doesn't touch links like [[..#hi|ho]].
- return "[[" . $inlink . ($anchor?"#$anchor":"") .
+ # Mediawiki doesn't touch links like \[[..#hi|ho]].
+ return "\[[" . $inlink . ($anchor?"#$anchor":"") .
($title?"|$title":"") . "]]" . $trailing;
}
add_depends($page, $redir_page);
my $link=bestlink($page, underscorize(translate_path($page,$redir_page)));
if (! length $link) {
- return "<b>Redirect Error:</b> <nowiki>[[$redir_page]] not found.</nowiki>";
+ return "<b>Redirect Error:</b> <nowiki>\[[$redir_page]] not found.</nowiki>";
}
$value=urlto($link, $page);
my %seen;
while (exists $pagestate{$at}{mediawiki}{redir}) {
if ($seen{$at}) {
- return "<b>Redirect Error:</b> cycle found on <nowiki>[[$at]]</nowiki>";
+ return "<b>Redirect Error:</b> cycle found on <nowiki>\[[$at]]</nowiki>";
}
$seen{$at}=1;
$at=$pagestate{$at}{mediawiki}{redir};
}
1
+
+----
+
+Hello. Got ikiwiki running and I'm planning to convert my personal
+Mediawiki wiki to ikiwiki so I can take offline copies around. If anyone
+has an old copy of the instructions, or any advice on where to start I'd be
+glad to hear it. Otherwise I'm just going to chronicle my journey on the
+page.--[[users/Chadius]]
+
+> Today I saw that someone is working to import wikipedia into git.
+> <http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/181163>
+> Since wikipedia uses mediawiki, perhaps his importer will work
+> on mediawiki in general. It seems to produce output that could be
+> used by the [[plugins/contrib/mediawiki]] plugin, if the filenames
+> were fixed to use the right extension. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> Here's another I found while browsing around starting from the link you gave Joey<br />
+>> <http://github.com/scy/levitation><br />
+>> As I don't run mediawiki anymore, but I still have my xz/gzip-compressed XML dumps,
+>> it's certainly easier for me to do it this way; also a file or a set of files is easier to lug
+>> around on some medium than a full mysqld or postgres master and relevant databases.