On Thu Mar 12, 2026 at 10:04 PM GMT, Paul Boddie wrote:
For the record, it isn't using Moin's parser at all: it's a completely
rewritten parser because I wanted a document tree which Moin 1.9's
parser couldn't provide.
Sorry, yes: In fact you've definitely told me that once already.
Apologies.
Unfortunately, I didn't have time to provide guidance on running the
moinconvert tool on the data dumps, but you can use the
--input-dir-type option with a value of moindirectory to have the tool
effectively provide a converted dump of the current state of a wiki in
a publishable form. Something like this should work:
Wow! Thanks.
[re: WikiWords]
I'll probably extend the tool to support them, but such support won't be
enabled by default. I obviously acknowledge that wikis tend to rely on
them due to Moin's default behaviour.
Cool thank you. Given your time constraints (and mine), I should point
out that I can't guarantee we'll use this, at least for the final
migration. Andrew has written his separate thing, and given the rate at
which he is working I'm inclined to leave him to that and focus on some
other facet of the migration. That said your tool may prove very useful
*to me* as part of my (now decoupled) Pandoc MoinMoin reader, and just
better understanding the structure and state of our wiki content. Thanks
for writing it, and sharing it.
P.S. Wikiwords are an annoying hangover from the early days of wikis,
presumably introduced by Ward Cunningham himself.
Oh yeah, I'm not a fan of them either these days.
P.P.S. I don't have a great deal of time to support this tool at the
moment. I'll try and give advice, but I have more urgent matters to
attend to.
Understood.
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