X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/d216a27e0c448447f798883a4d6692d1a51677ef..ec110abc6d412db5f65ea5b9311596bbe7799fd4:/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 ed3faa324..683a3f8ac 100644 --- 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 + +> 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: @@ -613,6 +635,8 @@ 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