doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki/discussion.mdwn



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:

using a python script and the dom library to extract the page names from
Special:Allpages (such as
http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/jon.dowland/unix/docs/get_pagenames.py)
Or, querying the mysql back-end to get the names
using WWW::MediaWiki for importing/exporting pages from the wiki, instead
of Special::Export

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]]