Posting my change to the 404 module

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

diff --git a/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki/discussion.mdwn b/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki/discussion.mdwn
index b3fe9f86ca7462af455f394ac9bd23be2eca58ba..683a3f8ac031abf6f048ffee4334f95b5a305132 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki/discussion.mdwn
+++ b/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki/discussion.mdwn
@@ -13,9 +13,31 @@ Also, some detail on converting mediawiki transclusion to ikiwiki inlines...
 
 -- [[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:
 
@@ -286,7 +308,7 @@ 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;
@@ -316,10 +338,10 @@ 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,
-          # 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;
           }
        
@@ -380,7 +402,7 @@ 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 $link) {
-                return "<b>Redirect Error:</b> <nowiki>[[$redir_page]] not found.</nowiki>";
+                return "<b>Redirect Error:</b> <nowiki>\[[$redir_page]] not found.</nowiki>";
              }
        
              $value=urlto($link, $page);
@@ -393,7 +415,7 @@ Mediawiki.pm - A plugin which supports mediawiki format.
              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};
@@ -612,3 +634,18 @@ Mediawiki.pm - A plugin which supports mediawiki format.
        }
        
        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]]