Reencoding MediaWiki pages - Revision history

Pew at 08:27, 3 January 2019

2019-01-03T08:27:11Z

imported>Pew at 06:35, 3 January 2018

2018-01-03T06:35:21Z

imported>Cov at 21:20, 17 November 2009

2009-11-17T21:20:40Z

imported>Cov at 21:17, 17 November 2009

2009-11-17T21:17:36Z

imported>Cov at 07:19, 13 November 2009

2009-11-13T07:19:32Z

imported>Cov at 05:32, 9 November 2009

2009-11-09T05:32:58Z

imported>Cov at 05:31, 9 November 2009

2009-11-09T05:31:17Z

imported>Cov at 03:08, 9 November 2009

2009-11-09T03:08:52Z

imported>Cov at 03:07, 9 November 2009

2009-11-09T03:07:24Z

imported>Cov: Created page with 'The following script is a work in progress. The end goal is to produce [w:WikiMarkup] from the HTML of a downloaded [w:MediaWiki] page.

 sed -rn -e '/…'

2009-11-09T03:07:07Z

Created page with 'The following script is a work in progress. The end goal is to produce [w:WikiMarkup] from the HTML of a downloaded [w:MediaWiki] page. <pre> sed -rn -e '/…'

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The following script is a work in progress. The end goal is to produce [w:WikiMarkup] from the HTML of a downloaded [w:MediaWiki] page.

<pre>
sed -rn -e '//,/<!--/p' page.html | \
sed -r -e '/<!--/d' -e 's%</?p>%%g' \
-e 's%<br>%<br />%' \
-e 's|<a href="([^"]*)" class="external text" title="[^"]*" rel="nofollow">([^<]*)</a>|[\1 \2]|'
</pre>

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	The following script will convert HTML from a [[w:MediaWiki\|MediaWiki]] page to [[w:Wikitext\|Wikitext]]. The script was written to facilitate the 2009 VTLUUG servers migration.		The following script will convert HTML from a [[w:MediaWiki\|MediaWiki]] page to [[w:Wikitext\|Wikitext]]. The script was written to facilitate the 2009 VTLUUG servers migration.

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	[[Category:Scripts]]		[[Category:Scripts]]
−	~~[[Category:Pending deletion]]~~

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	The following script will convert HTML from a [[w:MediaWiki\|MediaWiki]] page to [[w:Wikitext\|Wikitext]]. The script was written to facilitate the 2009 VTLUUG servers migration.		The following script will convert HTML from a [[w:MediaWiki\|MediaWiki]] page to [[w:Wikitext\|Wikitext]]. The script was written to facilitate the 2009 VTLUUG servers migration.

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	[[Category:Scripts]]		[[Category:Scripts]]
		+	[[Category:Pending deletion]]

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 =Running=
-The following command will create .wikitext files of the HTML files for your cut and paste convenience.
+==One-Shot==
 <pre>
-for f in *.html ; do $( sed -rn -e '/<!-- start content -->/,/<!--/p' $f | sed -r -f script > $f.wikitext ) ; done
+sed -rn -e '/<!-- start content -->/,/<!--/p' input.html | sed -r -f script > out.wikitext
 </pre>

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−	The following script will convert HTML from a [[w:MediaWiki\|MediaWiki]] page to [[w:Wikitext\|Wikitext]]. The script was written to facilitate the 2009 [[VTLUUG servers~~\|server]]~~ migration.	+	The following script will convert HTML from a [[w:MediaWiki\|MediaWiki]] page to [[w:Wikitext\|Wikitext]]. The script was written to facilitate the 2009 VTLUUG servers migration.

	=Script=		=Script=

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-The following script is a work in progress. The end goal is to produce [[w:Wikitext]] from the HTML of a downloaded [[w:MediaWiki]] page. This is going to help importing old wiki contents. Thanks to the Google cache, the HTML output of every page of the old site could be saved, but it looks like the MediaWiki database tables were overlooked when backing up before the server switch.
+The following script will convert HTML from a [[w:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] page to [[w:Wikitext|Wikitext]]. The script was written to facilitate the 2009 [[VTLUUG servers|server]] migration.
 =Script=
 <pre>
-sed -rn -e '/<!-- start content -->/,/<!--/p' page.html | \
+## CLEANUP ##
-sed -r -e '/<!--/d' \
+# Comments
-	-e 's|</?p>||g' \
+/<!--/d
-	-e 's|<br>|<br />|' \
+# Table of contents
-	-e 's|<a href="([^"]*)"[^>]*>([^<]*)</a>|[\1 \2]|g'
+/<table id="toc/,/<\/table>/ d
 </pre>
-=Todo=
+=Effectiveness=
-* Header tags to equal signs
+The script was effective enough for our purposes when written, but it has some shortcomings. Images and local article links are handled poorly and it does not attempt to produce the brace-bar-dash table markup.
-* Local links to article links

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−	The following script is a work in progress. The end goal is to produce [[w:Wikitext]] from the HTML of a downloaded [[w:MediaWiki]] page.	+	The following script is a work in progress. The end goal is to produce [[w:Wikitext]] from the HTML of a downloaded [[w:MediaWiki]] page. This is going to help importing old wiki contents. Thanks to the Google cache, the HTML output of every page of the old site could be saved, but it looks like the MediaWiki database tables were overlooked when backing up before the server switch.

	=Script=		=Script=

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−	The following script is a work in progress. The end goal is to produce [[w:~~WikiMarkup~~]] from the HTML of a downloaded [[w:MediaWiki]] page.	+	The following script is a work in progress. The end goal is to produce [[w:Wikitext]] from the HTML of a downloaded [[w:MediaWiki]] page.

	<pre>		<pre>

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−	The following script is a work in progress. The end goal is to produce [w:WikiMarkup] from the HTML of a downloaded [w:MediaWiki] page.	+	The following script is a work in progress. The end goal is to produce [[w:WikiMarkup]] from the HTML of a downloaded [[w:MediaWiki]] page.

	<pre>		<pre>