Re: [O] import wiki to orgmode

[Kyle Meyer]

Hello,

ron123 <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> is it possible to import mediawiki pages to org mode? [I need this for
> saving some wiki-articles.]
> I think a complete solution would be a bit difficult [you have links,
> footnotes, formatting etc.]
>
> But for the beginning it would be sufficient to make such conversions:

[...]

> to this orgmode text:
>
>     ** History
>
>     Emacs development began during the 1970s at ...
>
>     *** Other early implementations
>     In the following years, programmers wrote a variety of Emacs-like
> editors for other computer systems.
>
>     *** GNU Emacs
>     Richard Stallman began work on GNU Emacs in 1984 to produce a
>
>     *** XEmacs
>     Lucid Emacs, based on an early alpha version of GNU Emacs 19
>
>
>     *** Editors with Emacs emulation
>     - Yi, an editor that is written and extensible in
>     - Joe emulates Emacs keybindings when
>     - Jed has an emulation mode for Emacs.
>
>
> Unfortunately (and surprisingly) I didn't find a program for this. Any
> ideas? Isn;t there an org function?

As someone suggested in a comment to your Emacs Stack Exchange question [1],
I think pandoc is probably your best bet.  Running

    pandoc -f mediawiki -t org

with your example text as input gives

,----
| ** History
|    :PROPERTIES:
|    :CUSTOM_ID: history
|    :END:
|
| Emacs development began during the 1970s at ...
|
| *** Other early implementations
|     :PROPERTIES:
|     :CUSTOM_ID: other-early-implementations
|     :END:
|
| In the following years, programmers wrote a variety of Emacs-like ors
| for other computer systems.
|
| *** GNU Emacs
|     :PROPERTIES:
|     :CUSTOM_ID: gnu-emacs
|     :END:
|
| Richard Stallman began work on GNU Emacs in 1984 to produce a
|
| *** XEmacs
|     :PROPERTIES:
|     :CUSTOM_ID: xemacs
|     :END:
|
| Lucid Emacs, based on an early alpha version of GNU Emacs 19
|
| *** Editors with Emacs emulation
|     :PROPERTIES:
|     :CUSTOM_ID: editors-with-emacs-emulation
|     :END:
|
| -  Yi, an editor that is written and extensible in
| -  Joe emulates Emacs keybindings when
| -  Jed has an emulation mode for Emacs.
`----

[1] http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/24173/import-wiki-to-orgmode

--
Kyle