From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 18:05:39 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: tried mediawikigitdump
X-Git-Tag: 3.20110431~100
X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/commitdiff_plain/10c9a3c9b266cece510e3c98d4ff77e9f6ee76c4?hp=7f7cab849640279e98722f1fb27866a26e55aa71

tried mediawikigitdump
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diff --git a/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn b/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn
index 4e32e8949..615b5e827 100644
--- a/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn
+++ b/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn
@@ -166,4 +166,12 @@ information found on this website is stored at <http://github.com/mithro/media2i
 
 [[Anarcat]] wrote a python script to convert from a mediawiki website to ikiwiki at <http://anarcat.ath.cx/software/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.
 
+> 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]]a
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+> 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]]
+
 [[scy]] wrote a python script to convert from mediawiki XML dumps to git repositories at <https://github.com/scy/levitation>.