X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/f8ecbe8a0033468c39f60b0c3766731815515f50..6317ee847be90291b93a43507c182a7834bf0f8d:/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn diff --git a/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn b/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn index 8d1d52b49..91e191c4c 100644 --- a/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn +++ b/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn @@ -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. @@ -182,13 +183,26 @@ There is a Python script for converting from the Mediawiki format to Markdown in ## Scripts +### media2iki + There is a repository of tools for converting MediaWiki to Git based Markdown wiki formats (such as ikiwiki and github wikis) at . 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 +### levitation (xml to git) + [[scy]] wrote a python script to convert from mediawiki XML dumps to git repositories at . -[[Anarcat]] wrote a python script to convert from a mediawiki website to ikiwiki at . 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. +### git-mediawiki + +There's now support for mediawiki as a git remote: + + + +### 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 @@ -204,7 +218,7 @@ There is a repository of tools for converting MediaWiki to Git based Markdown wi > 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: -- [[anarcat]] +> > 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: