Re: MediaWiki next steps

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Tue, 2025-07-22 at 13:40:05 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Sun, 2025-07-20 at 13:00:20 +0200, Taavi Väänänen wrote:
> > * Figure out a transition plan for the old wiki.
> 
> During DebConf, and after the excitement of getting aware of the new
> wiki setup, Chris and me started to look a bit into this.
> 
> We found at least the following projects which might be helpful
> starting points for a mass conversion:
> 
>   * https://github.com/dwf/moin2rst
>     The thinking was to take it into rst, and from there use pandoc to
>     convert to mediawiki format. But this seems to require old
>     MediaWiki python2 (?) modules, which might be a tricky thing to
>     deal with. And didn't manage to find the matching Moin version for
>     those.

> (I might be forgetting or missing other things that we might have found
> but discarded.)

Ah right, related to the pandoc path, I found that there's been some
patches for pandoc to add native support for Moin syntax, but it got
merged then reverted, so I'm not sure what's the current status of the
code there. For ref:

  https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/185

Thanks,
Guillem