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@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 [[!toc levels=2]]
+[[!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.
@@ -30,9 +31,10 @@ that this script is sensitive to the specific markup used on the page, so if
 you have tweaked your mediawiki theme a lot from the original, you will need
 to adjust this script too:
 
+    import sys
     from xml.dom.minidom import parse, parseString
     
-    dom = parse(argv[1])
+    dom = parse(sys.argv[1])
     tables = dom.getElementsByTagName("table")
     pagetable = tables[-1]
     anchors = pagetable.getElementsByTagName("a")
@@ -47,10 +49,7 @@ in HTML, you may need to add further processing to the last line.
 
 Note that by default, `Special:Allpages` will only list pages in the main
 namespace. You need to add a `&namespace=XX` argument to get pages in a
-different namespace. The following numbers correspond to common namespaces:
-
- * 10 - templates (`Template:foo`)
- * 14 - categories (`Category:bar`)
+different namespace. (See below for the default list of namespaces)
 
 Note that the page names obtained this way will not include any namespace
 specific prefix: e.g. `Category:` will be stripped off.
@@ -58,7 +57,28 @@ specific prefix: e.g. `Category:` will be stripped off.
 ### Querying the database
 
 If you have access to the relational database in which your mediawiki data is
-stored, it is possible to derive a list of page names from this.
+stored, it is possible to derive a list of page names from this. With mediawiki's
+MySQL backend, the page table is, appropriately enough, called `table`:
+
+    SELECT page_namespace, page_title FROM page;
+
+As with the previous method, you will need to do some filtering based on the
+namespace.
+
+### namespaces
+
+The list of default namespaces in mediawiki is available from <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Namespace#Built-in_namespaces>. Here are reproduced the ones you are most likely to encounter if you are running a small mediawiki install for your own purposes:
+
+[[!table data="""
+Index   | Name         | Example
+0       | Main         | Foo
+1       | Talk         | Talk:Foo
+2       | User         | User:Jon
+3       | User talk    | User_talk:Jon
+6       | File         | File:Barack_Obama_signature.svg
+10      | Template     | Template:Prettytable
+14      | Category     | Category:Pages_needing_review
+"""]]
 
 ## Step 2: fetching the page data
 
@@ -117,7 +137,7 @@ into an ikiwiki tag name using a script such as
     pattern =  r'\[\[Category:([^\]]+)\]\]'
     
     def manglecat(mo):
-            return '[[!tag %s]]' % mo.group(1).strip().replace(' ','_')
+            return '\[[!tag %s]]' % mo.group(1).strip().replace(' ','_')
             
     for line in sys.stdin.readlines():
             res = re.match(pattern, line)
@@ -125,16 +145,156 @@ into an ikiwiki tag name using a script such as
                     sys.stdout.write(re.sub(pattern, manglecat, line))
             else: sys.stdout.write(line)
 
-## Step 4: Mediawiki plugin
+## Step 4: Mediawiki plugin or Converting to Markdown
+
+You can use a plugin to make ikiwiki support Mediawiki syntax, or you can 
+convert pages to a format ikiwiki understands.
+
+### Step 4a: Mediawiki plugin
 
 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
 
-[[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>
+### Step 4b: Converting pages
 
+#### Converting to Markdown
 
+There is a Python script for converting from the Mediawiki format to Markdown in [[mithro]]'s conversion repository at <http://github.com/mithro/media2iki>. *WARNING:* While the script tries to preserve everything is can, Markdown syntax is not as flexible as Mediawiki so the conversion is lossy!
+
+    # The script needs the mwlib library to work
+    # If you don't have easy_install installed, apt-get install python-setuptools
+    sudo easy_install mwlib
+    
+    # Get the repository
+    git clone git://github.com/mithro/media2iki.git
+    cd media2iki
+    
+    # Do a conversion
+    python mediawiki2markdown.py --no-strict --no-debugger <my mediawiki file> > output.md
+
+
+[[mithro]] doesn't frequent this page, so please report issues on the [github issue tracker](https://github.com/mithro/media2iki/issues).
+
+## 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>.
+
+### 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
+> automate that? --[[Joey]]
+
+> > You mean a debian package? :) media2iki is actually a submodule, so you need to go through extra steps to install it. mwlib being the most annoying part... I have fixed my script so it looks for media2iki directly in the submodule and improved the install instructions in the README file, but I'm not sure I can do much more short of starting to package the whole thing... --[[anarcat]]
+
+>>> You may have forgotten to push that, I don't see those changes.
+>>> Packaging the python library might be a good 1st step.
+>>> --[[Joey]] 
+
+> 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]]
+
+> > 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:
+>>> --[[Joey]] 
+
+<pre>
+fetching page 4 metres  from http://www.amateur-radio-wiki.net//index.php?action=raw&title=4+metres into 4_metres.mdwn
+Unknown tag TagNode tagname='div' vlist={'style': {u'float': u'left', u'border': u'2px solid #aaa', u'margin-left': u'20px'}}->'div' div
+Traceback (most recent call last):
+  File "./mediawikigitdump.py", line 298, in <module>
+    fetch_allpages(namespace)
+  File "./mediawikigitdump.py", line 82, in fetch_allpages
+    fetch_page(page.getAttribute('title'))
+  File "./mediawikigitdump.py", line 187, in fetch_page
+    c.parse(urllib.urlopen(url).read())
+  File "/home/joey/tmp/mediawikigitdump/mediawiki2markdown.py", line 285, in parse
+    self.parse_node(ast)
+  File "/home/joey/tmp/mediawikigitdump/mediawiki2markdown.py", line 76, in parse_node
+    f(node)
+  File "/home/joey/tmp/mediawikigitdump/mediawiki2markdown.py", line 88, in on_article
+    self.parse_children(node)
+  File "/home/joey/tmp/mediawikigitdump/mediawiki2markdown.py", line 83, in parse_children
+    self.parse_node(child)
+  File "/home/joey/tmp/mediawikigitdump/mediawiki2markdown.py", line 76, in parse_node
+    f(node)
+  File "/home/joey/tmp/mediawikigitdump/mediawiki2markdown.py", line 413, in on_section
+    self.parse_node(child)
+  File "/home/joey/tmp/mediawikigitdump/mediawiki2markdown.py", line 76, in parse_node
+    f(node)
+  File "/home/joey/tmp/mediawikigitdump/mediawiki2markdown.py", line 83, in parse_children
+    self.parse_node(child)
+  File "/home/joey/tmp/mediawikigitdump/mediawiki2markdown.py", line 76, in parse_node
+    f(node)
+  File "/home/joey/tmp/mediawikigitdump/mediawiki2markdown.py", line 474, in on_tagnode
+    assert not options.STRICT
+AssertionError
+zsh: exit 1     ./mediawikigitdump.py -v -t http://www.amateur-radio-wiki.net/
+</pre>
+
+<pre>
+joey@wren:~/tmp/mediawikigitdump>./mediawikigitdump.py -v -t http://archiveteam.org            
+fetching page list from namespace 0 ()
+found 222 pages
+fetching page /Sites using MediaWiki (English)  from http://archiveteam.org/index.php?action=raw&title=%2FSites+using+MediaWiki+%28English%29 into /Sites_using_MediaWiki_(English).mdwn
+Traceback (most recent call last):
+  File "./mediawikigitdump.py", line 298, in <module>
+    fetch_allpages(namespace)
+  File "./mediawikigitdump.py", line 82, in fetch_allpages
+    fetch_page(page.getAttribute('title'))
+  File "./mediawikigitdump.py", line 188, in fetch_page
+    f = open(filename, 'w')
+IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/Sites_using_MediaWiki_(English).mdwn'
+zsh: exit 1     ./mediawikigitdump.py -v -t http://archiveteam.org
+</pre>
+
+> > > > > 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>