ais523 wrote: > 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.
For a one-time migration, you could just manually edit each page, copy+paste the source into a local text editor, then cancel the edit and move on to the next. It's only a few dozen pages, and http://agora-notary.wikidot.com/system:page-tags/tag/contract should be a complete list of what you need to grab. Then you'd just want to look at the other tags (private, contest, pledge, partnership) and copy+paste those lists somewhere as well.
