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 [[JoshTriplett]] has developed scripts to convert MoinMoin and TWiki wikis
 to ikiwikis backed by a git repository, including full history. For
 details, see [[his_user_page|JoshTriplett]].
 [[JoshTriplett]] has developed scripts to convert MoinMoin and TWiki wikis
 to ikiwikis backed by a git repository, including full history. For
 details, see [[his_user_page|JoshTriplett]].

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+> I have worked on porting this to more recent MoinMoin versions, optimising it and making sure it works reliably even on big wikis with funky things.
+> 
+>     git clone git://src.anarcat.ath.cx/moin2iki
+>
+> List of improvements:
+>
+>* full rewrite of git migration tool to support latest MoinMoin versions (tested with 1.9.x)
+>* uses `git fast-import` to improve performance (10 minutes and 200M of ram for a 7 years old 2GB Moinmoin wiki)
+>* more reliable as it uses the per-page edit log
+>* consistent: multiple runs will generate the same repository
+>* re-entrant: can be run multiple times to import new changes
+>
+> Look at the `moin2git2` script for most of my work, which really consisted on importing the MoinMoin pages into git reliably. Now I am rewriting the MoinMoin parser to generate markdown directly instead of going through HTML, because I want to support translating the macros too.
+>
+> Big things missing:
+>
+> * lots of macros are not translated
+> * a bunch of markup and exotic uses of parsers will probably fail? 
+> * [[todo/internal_definition_list_support/]]
+> * [[todo/do_not_make_links_backwards/]]
+> * fix up documentation and make sure all the pieces go into place