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| author | Jon Dowland <jon@alcopop.org> | 2008-11-10 23:34:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Jon Dowland <jon@alcopop.org> | 2008-11-10 23:34:09 +0000 |
| commit | f28069a05c063c8583b207333a14ed353874d89c (patch) | |
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diff --git a/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki/discussion.mdwn b/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki/discussion.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6e5f1668a --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki/discussion.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +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... + +-- [[JonDowland]] |