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+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:
@@ -13,6 +21,8 @@ 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]]
 
@@ -20,6 +30,22 @@ 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:
 
@@ -617,6 +643,8 @@ 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
@@ -629,3 +657,9 @@ page.--[[users/Chadius]]
 > 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.