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 command will create ==One-Shot==Replace <code>input.html</code> and <code>out.wikitext files of the HTML files for your cut and paste convenience</code> with appropriate filenames.

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