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diff --git a/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki/discussion.mdwn b/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki/discussion.mdwn index b3fe9f86c..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! + +<http://github.com/docunext/mediawiki2gitikiwiki> + +-- [[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: @@ -13,9 +21,31 @@ 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 <http://github.com/mithro/media2iki> + +> 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 +> <http://github.com/jmtd/mediawiki.pm> as a start. +> -- [[Jon]] + +---- The iki-fast-load ruby script from the u32 page is given below: @@ -286,7 +316,7 @@ Mediawiki.pm - A plugin which supports mediawiki format. } - # Called to handle bookmarks like [[#heading]] or <span class="createlink"><a href="http://u32.net/cgi-bin/ikiwiki.cgi?page=%20text%20&from=Mediawiki_Plugin%2Fmediawiki&do=create" rel="nofollow">?</a>#a</span> + # Called to handle bookmarks like \[[#heading]] or <span class="createlink"><a href="http://u32.net/cgi-bin/ikiwiki.cgi?page=%20text%20&from=Mediawiki_Plugin%2Fmediawiki&do=create" rel="nofollow">?</a>#a</span> sub generate_fragment_link { my $url = shift; @@ -316,10 +346,10 @@ Mediawiki.pm - A plugin which supports mediawiki format. # Ikiwiki's link link plugin wrecks this line when displaying on the site. # Until the code highlighter plugin can turn off link finding, - # always escape double brackets in double quotes: [[ + # always escape double brackets in double quotes: \[[ if($inlink eq '..') { - # Mediawiki doesn't touch links like [[..#hi|ho]]. - return "[[" . $inlink . ($anchor?"#$anchor":"") . + # Mediawiki doesn't touch links like \[[..#hi|ho]]. + return "\[[" . $inlink . ($anchor?"#$anchor":"") . ($title?"|$title":"") . "]]" . $trailing; } @@ -380,7 +410,7 @@ Mediawiki.pm - A plugin which supports mediawiki format. add_depends($page, $redir_page); my $link=bestlink($page, underscorize(translate_path($page,$redir_page))); if (! length $link) { - return "<b>Redirect Error:</b> <nowiki>[[$redir_page]] not found.</nowiki>"; + return "<b>Redirect Error:</b> <nowiki>\[[$redir_page]] not found.</nowiki>"; } $value=urlto($link, $page); @@ -393,7 +423,7 @@ Mediawiki.pm - A plugin which supports mediawiki format. my %seen; while (exists $pagestate{$at}{mediawiki}{redir}) { if ($seen{$at}) { - return "<b>Redirect Error:</b> cycle found on <nowiki>[[$at]]</nowiki>"; + return "<b>Redirect Error:</b> cycle found on <nowiki>\[[$at]]</nowiki>"; } $seen{$at}=1; $at=$pagestate{$at}{mediawiki}{redir}; @@ -612,3 +642,24 @@ 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 +glad to hear it. Otherwise I'm just going to chronicle my journey on the +page.--[[users/Chadius]] + +> Today I saw that someone is working to import wikipedia into git. +> <http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/181163> +> Since wikipedia uses mediawiki, perhaps his importer will work +> 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<br /> +>> <http://github.com/scy/levitation><br /> +>> 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. |