+++ Yitzchak Gale [Apr 21 15 14:02 ]:
Henning Thielemann wrote:
I'd much prefer to have a gitit/pandoc/markdown Wiki were I can pull the whole wiki and manipulate it offline. Perhaps the migration would be easier this time due to better tooling. Does pandoc support MediaWiki input? If not, we could write a backend for it.
Yes, pandoc can convert from MediaWiki (not perfectly, but pretty well). Last time this issue came up (2012), I produced a proof-of-concept gitit clone of the haskellwiki. I've reactivated it here: http://haskellwiki.gitit.net/ (Of course, the last commit was in 2012.) I used a custom script (https://github.com/jgm/hw2gitit/blob/master/hw2gitit.hs) to convert it. At the time, pandoc didn't read MediaWiki, so I parsed the HTML and converted this to Markdown. This worked fairly well. It might probably make more sense now to directly parse the MediaWiki source using pandoc. John