Imports a MediaWiki XML export into a Gollum wiki

mw-to-gollum.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'hpricot'
require 'gollum'

wiki = Gollum::Wiki.new('openaustralia.wiki')

file = File.open("OpenAustralia-20110309232515.xml", "r")
 
doc = Hpricot(file)

doc.search('/mediawiki/page').each do |el|
  title = el.at('title').inner_text
  content = el.at('text').inner_text
  commit = { :message => "Import MediaWiki page #{title} into Gollum",
             :name => 'Henare Degan',
             :email => 'henare.degan@gmail.com' }
  begin
    puts "Writing page #{title}"
    wiki.write_page(title, :mediawiki, content, commit)
  rescue Gollum::DuplicatePageError => e
    p "Duplicate #{title}"
  end
end

file.close

Wonderful. Quick details how to import that into github, once you have xml export:

sudo gem install hpricot gollum

mkdir openaustralia.wiki
cd openaustralia.wiki
git init
cd ..
ruby mw-to-gollum.rb

Very nice! I had to add require 'gollum-lib'

Thanks a lot, this was a big help! Like @schmunk42, I had to require 'gollum-lib.

And here in 2024, the Ruby script worked well! Thanks!

I then converted everything to Github flavoured Markdown using:

#!/bin/bash

for file in *.mediawiki
do
    base_name="${file%.mediawiki}"
    
    pandoc -f mediawiki -t gfm -o "${base_name}.md" "$file"
    
    echo "Converted $file to ${base_name}.md"
done

echo "Conversion complete!"

This made my day hearing this was still useful 14 years later, thank you @carlohamalainen 😃