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<p>this script can be used to convert your existing Movable Type blog/database to a ikiwiki blog.</p>
<p>First, go to your MT Admin panel and purge all spam comments/trackbacks. Then use this script: <a href="http://anti.teamidiot.de/static/nei/*/Code/MovableType/mtdump_to_iki.pl">http://anti.teamidiot.de/static/nei/*/Code/MovableType/mtdump_to_iki.pl</a></p>
<p>If you wrote your posts with markdown already you're pretty much ikiwiki compatible <img src="../smileys/smile.png" alt=":-)" /></p>
<pre><code>DATABASE_NAME=your_mt_database
DATABASE_USER=your_mysql_user
mkdir -p conv/posts
mysqldump $DATABASE_NAME -v -nt --compatible=ansi,postgresql \\
--complete-insert=TRUE --extended-insert=FALSE --compact \\
--default-character-set=UTF8 -u $DATABASE_USER \\
| perl mtdump_to_iki.pl
</code></pre>
<p>the script will spit out one file for every post into the conv/posts directory. you can manually clean them up or however you like. next, you must set the output directory where your ikiwiki resides:</p>
<pre><code>export OUT=$HOME/my_ikiwiki_blog
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<p>make sure there is a 'posts' subdirectory inside (default if you start with the blog-setup script)</p>
<p>now you can import one or all posts and comments by running the post file through zsh:</p>
<pre><code>zsh ./1__my_first_post.mdwn
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<p>or to do it all:</p>
<pre><code>zsh
for import (<->__*.*) { zsh $import }
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<p>the files will be created in your $OUT directory and committed onto git. now the <strong>important</strong> last step: run</p>
<pre><code>ikiwiki --gettime --setup your.setup
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<p>only with the gettime flag will ikiwiki reread the file dates as recorded in the git. Enjoy!</p>
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