From: https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawnST62ryzCi8-Zye_-2fjr2IOULgraoI9o <Tim@web>
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 23:32:49 +0000 (-0400)
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diff --git a/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn b/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn
index 7a34ffc15..607560cba 100644
--- a/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn
+++ b/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn
@@ -144,7 +144,12 @@ into an ikiwiki tag name using a script such as
                     sys.stdout.write(re.sub(pattern, manglecat, line))
             else: sys.stdout.write(line)
 
-## Step 4: Mediawiki plugin
+## Step 4: Mediawiki plugin or Converting to Markdown
+
+You can use a plugin to make ikiwiki support Mediawiki syntax, or you can 
+convert pages to a format ikiwiki understands.
+
+### Step 4a: Mediawiki plugin
 
 The [[plugins/contrib/mediawiki]] plugin can be used by ikiwiki to interpret
 most of the Mediawiki syntax.
@@ -155,12 +160,29 @@ The following things are not working:
 * tables
 * spaces and other funky characters ("?") in page names
 
+### Step 4b: Converting pages
+
+#### Converting to Markdown
+
+There is a Python script for converting from the Mediawiki format to Markdown in [[mithro]]'s conversion repository at <http://github.com/mithro/media2iki>. *WARNING:* While the script tries to preserve everything is can, Markdown syntax is not as flexible as Mediawiki so the conversion is lossy!
+
+    # The script needs the mwlib library to work
+    # If you don't have easy_install installed, apt-get install python-setuptools
+    sudo easy_install mwlib
+    
+    # Get the repository
+    git clone git://github.com/mithro/media2iki.git
+    cd media2iki
+    
+    # Do a conversion
+    python mediawiki2markdown.py --no-strict --no-debugger <my mediawiki file> > output.md
+
+
+[[mithro]] doesn't frequent this page, so please report issues on the [github issue tracker](https://github.com/mithro/media2iki/issues).
+
 ## Scripts
 
-[[sabr]] used to explain how to [import MediaWiki content into
-git](http://u32.net/Mediawiki_Conversion/index.html?updated), including full
-edit history, but as of 2009/10/16 that site is not available. A copy of the 
-information found on this website is stored at <http://github.com/mithro/media2iki>.
+There is a repository of tools for converting MediaWiki to Git based Markdown wiki formats (such as ikiwiki and github wikis) at <http://github.com/mithro/media2iki>. It also includes a standalone tool for converting from the Mediawiki format to Markdown. [[mithro]] doesn't frequent this page, so please report issues on the [github issue tracker](https://github.com/mithro/media2iki/issues).
 
 [[Albert]] wrote a ruby script to convert from mediawiki's database to ikiwiki at <https://github.com/docunext/mediawiki2gitikiwiki>