X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/4df15554f84831d9e39db8719efa1b4b9ef9dd82..ddb4f2410486f46255c4909bbb43b75c4b08f308:/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 683a3f8ac..d67a9131b 100644 --- a/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki/discussion.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +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! + + + +-- [[users/Albert]] + +---- + 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: @@ -649,3 +657,9 @@ page.--[[users/Chadius]] > 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
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+>> 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.