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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! 
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+<http://github.com/docunext/mediawiki2gitikiwiki>
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+-- [[users/Albert]]
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+----
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 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:
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 > 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]] 
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+>> 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.