document what's not working in the mediawiki parser

[git.ikiwiki.info.git] / doc / tips / convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn

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@@ -149,11 +149,21 @@ into an ikiwiki tag name using a script such as
 The [[plugins/contrib/mediawiki]] plugin can be used by ikiwiki to interpret
 most of the Mediawiki syntax.
 
 The [[plugins/contrib/mediawiki]] plugin can be used by ikiwiki to interpret
 most of the Mediawiki syntax.
 

-## External links
+The following things are not working:
+
+* templates
+* tables
+* spaces and other funky characters ("?") in page names
+
+## Scripts

 
 [[sabr]] used to explain how to [import MediaWiki content into
 git](http://u32.net/Mediawiki_Conversion/index.html?updated), including full
 edit history, but as of 2009/10/16 that site is not available. A copy of the 
 
 [[sabr]] used to explain how to [import MediaWiki content into
 git](http://u32.net/Mediawiki_Conversion/index.html?updated), including full
 edit history, but as of 2009/10/16 that site is not available. A copy of the 

-information found on this website is stored at <http://github.com/mithro/media2iki>
+information found on this website is stored at <http://github.com/mithro/media2iki>.
+
+[[Albert]] wrote a ruby script to convert from mediawiki's database to ikiwiki at <https://github.com/docunext/mediawiki2gitikiwiki>

 
 

+[[Anarcat]] wrote a python script to convert from a mediawiki website to ikiwiki at <http://anarcat.ath.cx/software/mediawikigitdump.git/>. The script doesn't need any special access or privileges and communicates with the documented API (so it's a bit slower, but allows you to mirror sites you are not managing, like parts of Wikipedia). The script can also incrementally import new changes from a running site, through RecentChanges inspection.

 
 

+[[scy]] wrote a python script to convert from mediawiki XML dumps to git repositories at <https://github.com/scy/levitation>.