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@@ -13,9 +13,16 @@ 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>
+
+----
 
 The iki-fast-load ruby script from the u32 page is given below:
 
@@ -613,4 +620,17 @@ Mediawiki.pm - A plugin which supports mediawiki format.
        
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-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]]
+----
+
+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]]