Conversion rules

Conversion rules for the script converting wikdot pages to mediawiki ones

All history forgotten

All new entries have the name from the page title, not its filename

Any page tagged with 'Admin' should be put on a blacklist and not converted

Tags should be converted to lines appended to the end of a page

&lbrak;[[[John Bray]]&rbrak;

Change [[[[link]]] to &lbrak;[[[page]]&rbrak;

Change [[[link]]] and [[[[link]]]] to [[page]], as we don't want those extra [
  "\[(\[\[[A-Za-z0-9\- ,'\.\|]*\]\])\]" "\1"

Change italics // to ''
 "//" "''"

Change bold ** to '''

change bullet # at the start of a line to *, otherwise leave alone


change [[include file]] to \{\{file\}\}
 "\[\[include ([A-Za-z0-9\- ,']*)\]\]" "{{\1}}"

Next 3 changes must be applied in order
Change conseries lines of the form [[[Boskone 1]]]<<<<@@  @@>>>>[[[Boskone 3]]] to {{Template:ConSeries|before=[[Boskone 1]]|after=[[Boskone 3]]}}
  "\[\[\[([A-Za-z0-9\- ,']*)\]\]\]<<<<@@  @@>>>>\[\[\[([A-Za-z0-9\- ,']*)\]\]\]" "{{Template:ConSeries|before=\1|after=\2}}"

Change [[[Boskone 2]]]<<<<@@  @@ to {{Template:ConSeries|before=[[Boskone 2]]}}
 "\[\[\[([A-Za-z0-9\- ,']*)\]\]\]<<<<@@  @@" "{{Template:ConSeries|before=\1}}"

Change @@  @@>>>>[[[Boskone 2]]] to {{Template:ConSeries|after=[[Boskone 2]]}}
 "@@  @@>>>>\[\[\[([A-Za-z0-9\- ,']*)\]\]\]" "{{Template:ConSeries|after=\1}}"

Change tables with header row
 <tab class=wikitable>
 Name | Date | GoH
 Con | October 25-27, 1980 | John Bray
 </tab>

Change Fancyclopedia 1 boxes to
 {{Fancyclopedia 1 | text=
 TEXT
 }}

 "\|\| from \[\[\[Fancyclopedia 1\]\]\]   ca\. 1944 \|\|\n\|\|([ A-Za-z0-9\- ,'\.\|\[\]]*)\|\|" "{{Template:Fancyclopedia 1|text=\1\n}}"

Change Fancyclopedia 2 boxes to
 {{Fancyclopedia 2 | text=
 TEXT
 }}

 "\|\| from \[\[\[Fancyclopedia 2\]\]\]   ca\. 1959 \|\|\n\|\|([ A-Za-z0-9\- ,'\.\|\[\]]*)\|\|" "{{Template:Fancyclopedia 2|text=\1\n}}"

Change [[include recognition]] to {{recognition}}

Change [[include fanbar|website=X]] to {{fan|website=X}}

Change [[include probar|website=X]] to {{pro|website=X}}

Change [[include genbar|website=X]] to {{general|website=X}}

Change [[include genbar|website=X|name=Y]] to {{general|website=X|name=Y}}

Change [[include smallpressbar|website=X|name=Y]] to {{publisher|website=X|name=Y}}

Change [[include awardbar|website=X|name=Y]] to {{award|website=X|name=Y}}

Change [[include linkbar first=A | second=B | name=Y| website=X]] to {{general|website=X|name=Y}} # forget the A and B

Change [[include conbar|website=X|name=Y]] to {{convention|name=Y|website=X}}

Change [[include prozinebar|website=X|name=Y]] to {{prozinebar|name=Y|website=X}}

Change [[include bookbar|website=X|name=Y]] to {{prozinebar|name=Y|website=X}}

Change [[include websiteref url=X|text=T]] to {{websiteref|website=X|text=T}}

Change [[include stub-bio]] to {{stub-bio}} and for stub-convention, stub-club, stub-fanzine, stub-apazine, stub. stub-bid

Leave <winner> alone and other things that are html tag like

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