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+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]]
+
+----
+
+I wrote a script that will download all the latest revisions of a mediawiki site. In short, it does a good part of the stuff required for the migration: it downloads the goods (ie. the latest version of every page, automatically) and commits the resulting structure. There's still a good few pieces missing for an actual complete conversion to ikiwiki, but it's a pretty good start. It only talks with mediawiki through HTTP, so no special access is necessary. The downside of that is that it will not attempt to download every revision for performance reasons. The code is here: http://anarcat.ath.cx/software/mediawikigitdump.git/ See header of the file for more details and todos. -- [[users/Anarcat]] 2010-10-15
+
+----
+

 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:
 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:


@@ -22,6 +34,21 @@ 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>
 
 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:
 ----
 
 The iki-fast-load ruby script from the u32 page is given below:


@@ -634,3 +661,9 @@ page.--[[users/Chadius]]
 > 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]] 
 > 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.