X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/f6d08ceb358f6d5e51c54ab1b9e90cc4a86fad37..b9e443c4d1ba0fdd64bbc2120831db490b185733:/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn b/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn index 87b1ebc48..ab6984494 100644 --- a/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn +++ b/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ converting some of the Mediawiki conventions into Ikiwiki ones. The following instructions describe ways of obtaining the current version of the wiki. We do not yet cover importing the history of edits. +Another set of instructions and conversion tools (which imports the full history) +can be found at + ## Step 1: Getting a list of pages The first bit of information you require is a list of pages in the Mediawiki. @@ -100,7 +103,7 @@ the result. It is possible to extract the page data from the database with some well-crafted queries. -## Step 2: format conversion +## Step 3: format conversion The next step is to convert Mediawiki conventions into Ikiwiki ones. @@ -122,7 +125,7 @@ into an ikiwiki tag name using a script such as sys.stdout.write(re.sub(pattern, manglecat, line)) else: sys.stdout.write(line) -## Step 3: Mediawiki plugin +## Step 4: Mediawiki plugin The [[plugins/contrib/mediawiki]] plugin can be used by ikiwiki to interpret most of the Mediawiki syntax. @@ -131,5 +134,7 @@ most of the Mediawiki syntax. [[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. +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 +