Mediawiki -> HTML conversion

@ECC Wiki Team, right now our top priority is to convert the Mediawiki pages from https://ecocitycraft.com/wiki to HTML code at https://www.ecocitycraft.com/forum/wiki. We are using HTML instead of BBCode because of tables, but the list syntax is a bit more complex. My bash script can convert most mediawiki codes, but lists are impossible to convert using my current approach. I'm going to run the wiki pages through my script and the remaining team members can then convert the mediawiki lists from those files to HTML.

Here's a short tutorial about HTML lists.

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This is what the example list looks like:

This paragraph is not part of the list.

• This is a list entry at level 1.
• This is another list entry at level 1 and it has a sublist.
  • This is a list entry at level 2.
  • This is another list entry at level 2.
• This is a list entry at level 1 again and it has a sublist.
  • This is a list entry at level 2 again and it has a sublist.
    • This is a list entry at level 3.

This paragraph is not part of the list.

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This is what the current mediawiki code looks like:

Code:

This paragraph is not part of the list.
*This is a list entry at level 1.
*This is another list entry at level 1 and it has a sublist.
**This is a list entry at level 2.
**This is another list entry at level 2.
*This is a list entry at level 1 again and it has a sublist.
**This is a list entry at level 2 again and it has a sublist.
***This is a list entry at level 3.
This paragraph is not part of the list.

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This is what it will need to look like in HTML:

Code:

This paragraph is not part of the list.
<ul>
   <li>This is a list entry at level 1.</li>
   <li>This is another list entry at level 1 and it has a sublist.
       <ul>
           <li>This is a list entry at level 2.</li>
           <li>This is another list entry at level 2.</li>
       </ul>
   </li>
   <li>This is a list entry at level 1 again and it has a sublist.
       <ul>
           <li>This is a list entry at level 2 again and it has a sublist.
               <ul>
                   <li>This is a list entry at level 3.</li>
               </ul>
           </li>
       </ul>
   </li>
</ul>
This paragraph is not part of the list.

Indentation is optional (but recommended to remain sane). <ul> marks the start of an unordered list and </ul> marks its end, you can also use <ol> and </ol> for ordered/numbered lists. <li>Content</li> marks the content of a single line inside the current list; sublists must be placed within the <li>...</li> of their parent element.

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My half-converted wiki pages are located at https://tinyurl.com/yb5cdrul, new pages will be added soon. Please look at those files and convert the mediawiki lists to HTML ones. Once you are done with a list (or even only part of a list), post it here and I'll update the files. Thanks.

 

It's a message to the wiki team, that's why I posted it in the (public) wiki team forum.

My script already converts that kind of formatting.

The admin who posted this thread is an idiot who didn't even think of that...

Thanks for the idea, I'll look into it.

 

No, because <li> tags always need to be enclosed by <ul> or <ol> tags and <ul>/<ol> tags need to contain at least one <li> element (which can contain a nested <ul>/<ol> tag).

Anyway - I have found a partial Mediawiki parser; lists seem to be working properly. Tables aren't being converted, I'll try to combine that parser with my own script.