X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/6659d78aa2e3c66c9beadf180aa18438db0f40e5..f398ad035b973608d380c9939ea845d8e2a0cdc2:/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki/discussion.mdwn?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki/discussion.mdwn b/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki/discussion.mdwn index 12c241a7d..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: @@ -22,6 +30,21 @@ 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 +> 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 +> as a start. +> -- [[Jon]] + ---- The iki-fast-load ruby script from the u32 page is given below: @@ -634,3 +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.