import sys and sys.argv

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / tips / convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn b/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn
index 1e5b912a93d7f345b20b2b3b00ac3ebebd771967..45df683de94a222ad98968c8f5675de87858b4fa 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn
+++ b/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ converting some of the Mediawiki conventions into Ikiwiki ones.
 The following instructions describe ways of obtaining the current version of
 the wiki. We do not yet cover importing the history of edits.
 
+Another set of instructions and conversion tools (which imports the full history)
+can be found at <http://github.com/mithro/media2iki>
+
 ## Step 1: Getting a list of pages
 
 The first bit of information you require is a list of pages in the Mediawiki.
@@ -27,15 +30,16 @@ that this script is sensitive to the specific markup used on the page, so if
 you have tweaked your mediawiki theme a lot from the original, you will need
 to adjust this script too:
 
+    import sys
     from xml.dom.minidom import parse, parseString
     
-    dom = parse(argv[1])
+    dom = parse(sys.argv[1])
     tables = dom.getElementsByTagName("table")
     pagetable = tables[-1]
     anchors = pagetable.getElementsByTagName("a")
     for a in anchors:
         print a.firstChild.toxml().\
-            replace('&amp;,'&').\
+            replace('&amp;','&').\
             replace('&lt;','<').\
             replace('&gt;','>')
 
@@ -131,5 +135,7 @@ most of the Mediawiki syntax.
 
 [[sabr]] used to explain how to [import MediaWiki content into
 git](http://u32.net/Mediawiki_Conversion/index.html?updated), including full
-edit history, but as of 2009/10/16 that site is not available.
+edit history, but as of 2009/10/16 that site is not available. A copy of the 
+information found on this website is stored at <http://github.com/mithro/media2iki>
+