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

Change the clever double quotes “ and ” (see http://fancyclopedia.org/wilmar-h-shiras) to standard "

Change [[[[page]]] to [[[page]]]

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 prizes url=X|text=T]] to {{prizes|website=X|text=T}}

Change [[include fanzinebar website=X|name=Y]] to {{fanzine|website=X|name=T}}

Change [[include publisherbar website=X|name=Y]] to {{fanzine|website=X|name=T}}

Change [[include clubbar website=X|name=Y]] to {{club|website=X|name=T}}

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

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

Change [[include internetarchiveref url=X|capture=C|text=T]] to {{internetarchiveref|website=X|text=T|capture=C}}

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

Change [[include listof]] [[include listgen]] [[include :snippets]] to {{fixme}}

Change [[include whoswho1940ref page=N]] to {{whoswho1940ref|page=N}}

Change [[include File770Ref issue=A | page = B | text=C]] to {{file770ref|issue=A|page=B|text=C]]

Delete *bar1 pages line probar1

Delete file770ref, file770ref1 file770footnote

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

Provide John with a list of uploaded pdfs that were NOT done by him

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