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--- a/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki/discussion.mdwn
+++ b/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki/discussion.mdwn
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+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: git://anarcat.ath.cx/software/mediawikigitdump.git/ and git://anarcat.ath.cx/software/media2iki.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:


@@ -13,9 +25,31 @@ Also, some detail on converting mediawiki transclusion to ikiwiki inlines...
 
 -- [[users/Jon]]
 
 
 -- [[users/Jon]]
 

+----
+

 > "Who knows, the remote site might disappear.". Right now, it appears to
 > have done just that. -- [[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:
 
 
 The iki-fast-load ruby script from the u32 page is given below:
 


@@ -63,6 +97,8 @@ The iki-fast-load ruby script from the u32 page is given below:
            pipe.puts
         end
 
            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.
 
 
 Mediawiki.pm - A plugin which supports mediawiki format.
 


@@ -284,7 +320,7 @@ 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&amp;from=Mediawiki_Plugin%2Fmediawiki&amp;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&amp;from=Mediawiki_Plugin%2Fmediawiki&amp;do=create" rel="nofollow">?</a>#a</span>

        sub generate_fragment_link
        {
           my $url = shift;
        sub generate_fragment_link
        {
           my $url = shift;


@@ -314,10 +350,10 @@ Mediawiki.pm - A plugin which supports mediawiki format.
        
           # Ikiwiki's link link plugin wrecks this line when displaying on the site.
           # Until the code highlighter plugin can turn off link finding,
        
           # 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($inlink eq '..') {
           if($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;
           }
        
                 ($title?"|$title":"") . "]]" . $trailing;
           }
        


@@ -378,7 +414,7 @@ Mediawiki.pm - A plugin which supports mediawiki format.
              add_depends($page, $redir_page);
              my $link=bestlink($page, underscorize(translate_path($page,$redir_page)));
              if (! length $link) {
              add_depends($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);
              }
        
              $value=urlto($link, $page);


@@ -391,7 +427,7 @@ Mediawiki.pm - A plugin which supports mediawiki format.
              my %seen;
              while (exists $pagestate{$at}{mediawiki}{redir}) {
                 if ($seen{$at}) {
              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};
                 }
                 $seen{$at}=1;
                 $at=$pagestate{$at}{mediawiki}{redir};


@@ -610,3 +646,24 @@ Mediawiki.pm - A plugin which supports mediawiki format.
        }
        
        1
        }
        
        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.