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Conversion process.

Recommend installing Python 2.7.9 (which includes pip) https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-279/

A good idea to make sure latest pip is installed: pip install --upgrade setuptools pip Will probably need to pip install requests also

Use dumpwiki pythonscript to scrape the online wiki from (http://www.retrosoftware.co.uk/wiki/index.php)

Clone the repo from https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam run the following: dumpgenerator.py http://www.retrosoftware.co.uk/wiki/ --xml --images

Now we can convert the XML dump to github GFM wiki repo Create a new repo, and clone the git repo for the Wiki part. https://help.github.com/articles/adding-and-editing-wiki-pages-locally/

Install pandoc https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/tag/1.17.2

Convert the XML dumpfile

Run the conversion script convert.py to covert the XML dumpfile to a GFM wiki repo This script is a modified version of https://github.com/peterjc/mediawiki_to_git_md