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@@ -164,6 +164,14 @@ information found on this website is stored at <http://github.com/mithro/media2i
 
 [[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.
+[[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.
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+> Some assembly is required to get Mediawiki2markdown and its mwlib
+> gitmodule available in the right place for it to use.. perhaps you could
+> automate that? --[[Joey]]a
+
+> Also, when I try to run it with -t on www.amateur-radio-wiki.net, it
+> 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]]
 
 [[scy]] wrote a python script to convert from mediawiki XML dumps to git repositories at <https://github.com/scy/levitation>.