On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 14:27 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Alex Smith <ais...@bham.ac.uk> wrote: > > The data's all there, and we're left with no legal recourse to get it > > back again as Wikidot don't allow automated scraping; the Notary reports > > are "manual scraping" by copy/paste. So migrating back would be rather > > tricky and time-consuming, although probably possible. > > Not necessarily. Have we actually tried using the backup feature to > download the site as a zip file? How compatible is wikidot syntax > with, say, wikia syntax? > I asked Murphy about the possibility of using the backup feature to scrape the site, and got no response IIRC; maybe e missed the message. The syntax is rather different from MediaWiki's, but a sufficiently small proportion of it is actually used on the notary wiki that automatically converting would be easy enough.
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