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** [tickets:#6534] Wiki importer for github**
**Status:** open
**Labels:** import github 42cc
**Created:** Wed Aug 07, 2013 09:54 PM UTC by Dave Brondsema
**Last Updated:** Wed Aug 07, 2013 09:54 PM UTC
**Owner:** nobody
Wikis are git repositories and can be accessed like `git clone
https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine.wiki` for example. Check the main
repo API first to see if the repo has wiki enabled. You can see
https://sourceforge.net/p/googlecodewikiimporter/git/ for reference as an
example of another wiki importer. It is a separate repo because it needs the
"html2text" package to convert html to markdown, and that is a GPL library.
Github supports many markup types. Find a full list and determine what the
best way to convert them to markdown is. My guess is that few formats will
have tools available to convert them directly to markdown, so my likely
recommendation would be to render them as HTML (using
[pypeline](http://pypeline.sourceforge.net/) as a generic way to handle many of
those formats) and then html2text to get it into markdown.
If html2text or any other GPL library is needed, this will have to be a
separate repo from the main Allura repo. So please evaluate & test the
conversion options first, before putting code into place.
A second phase to all this (i.e. do it separately, after the basic import is
all working) would be to handle revision history. This would mean going
through each commit in the wiki git repo, and converting & updating every file
that changes. This may be very time consuming, so when we get to it, we may
want it to be a checkbox option, so users only do it if they want it.
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