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+[[!meta date="2008-10-20 16:55:38 -0400"]]
-Mediawiki is a dynamically-generated wiki which stores it's data in a
+Mediawiki is a dynamically-generated wiki which stores its data in a
relational database. Pages are marked up using a proprietary markup. It is
possible to import the contents of a Mediawiki site into an ikiwiki,
converting some of the Mediawiki conventions into Ikiwiki ones.
## Scripts
+### media2iki
+
There is a repository of tools for converting MediaWiki to Git based Markdown wiki formats (such as ikiwiki and github wikis) at <http://github.com/mithro/media2iki>. It also includes a standalone tool for converting from the Mediawiki format to Markdown. [[mithro]] doesn't frequent this page, so please report issues on the [github issue tracker](https://github.com/mithro/media2iki/issues).
+### mediawiki2gitikiwiki (ruby)
+
[[Albert]] wrote a ruby script to convert from mediawiki's database to ikiwiki at <https://github.com/docunext/mediawiki2gitikiwiki>
+### levitation (xml to git)
+
[[scy]] wrote a python script to convert from mediawiki XML dumps to git repositories at <https://github.com/scy/levitation>.
-[[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. It also supports mithro's new Mediawiki2markdown converter.
+### git-mediawiki
+
+There's now support for mediawiki as a git remote:
+
+<https://github.com/moy/Git-Mediawiki/wiki>
+
+### mediawikigitdump
+[[Anarcat]] wrote a python script to convert from a mediawiki website to ikiwiki at git://src.anarcat.ath.cx/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. It also supports mithro's new Mediawiki2markdown converter (which I have a copy here: git://src.anarcat.ath.cx/media2iki.git/).
> Some assembly is required to get Mediawiki2markdown and its mwlib
> gitmodule available in the right place for it to use.. perhaps you could
> fails on some html in the page named "4_metres". On archiveteam.org,
> it fails trying to write to a page filename starting with "/", --[[Joey]]
-> > can you show me exactly which commandline arguments you're using? also, I have made improvements over the converter too, also available here: <http://anarcat.ath.cx/software/media2iki.git/> -- [[anarcat]]
+> > can you show me exactly which commandline arguments you're using? also, I have made improvements over the converter too, also available here: git://src/anarcat.ath.cx/media2iki.git/ -- [[anarcat]]
>>> Not using your new converter, just the installation I did earlier
>>> today:
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> > > > > I have updated my script to call the parser without strict mode and to trim leading slashes (and /../, for that matter...) -- [[anarcat]]
+
+> > > > > > Getting this error with the new version on any site I try (when using -t only): `TypeError: argument 1 must be string or read-only character buffer, not None`
+> > > > > > bisecting, commit 55941a3bd89d43d09b0c126c9088eee0076b5ea2 broke it.
+> > > > > > --[[Joey]]
+
+> > > > > > > I can't reproduce here, can you try with -v or -d to try to trace down the problem? -- [[anarcat]]
+
+<pre>
+fetching page list from namespace 0 ()
+found 473 pages
+fetching page 0 - 9 from http://www.amateur-radio-wiki.net/index.php?action=raw&title=0+-+9 into 0_-_9.mdwn
+Traceback (most recent call last):
+ File "./mediawikigitdump.py", line 304, in <module>
+ main()
+ File "./mediawikigitdump.py", line 301, in main
+ fetch_allpages(options.namespace)
+ File "./mediawikigitdump.py", line 74, in fetch_allpages
+ fetch_page(page.getAttribute('title'))
+ File "./mediawikigitdump.py", line 180, in fetch_page
+ f.write(options.convert(urllib.urlopen(url).read()))
+TypeError: argument 1 must be string or read-only character buffer, not None
+zsh: exit 1 ./mediawikigitdump.py -v -d -t http://www.amateur-radio-wiki.net/
+</pre>