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  • jamiedolan
    Member
    • Dec 2009
    • 73

    Wikipedia to VB

    HI;

    I want to import some Wikipedia posts into VB. (Just a sticky post at the top of a forum category, i.e. Dog Breed info for Shih tzu). Maybe 50 articles. Wiki uses the Wikimedia markup language, so I can't copy and paste the raw code. I've tried changing the Wiki to print mode and copying the html source of that, but the formatting is a total mess once I put it into a VB post.

    The only way I found to do it was to copy and paste in a plain text and re-do any mark-up I want. I just did one article and it took me a good half hour to get it looking good. I still didn't get nearly all the links in the article re-built such as to the references.

    Is there any faster way to take the Wikipedia code or the Wiki html and get it into a VB post?

    I do have html turned on for myself and it does phrase some of the HTML code when I past it in but there are large parts of the page that don't phrase and show raw code.

    Thanks,
    Jamie
    Jamie Dolan
    Neenah, WI
    My VB Forum: Paw Dogs
  • Steve Machol
    Former Customer Support Manager
    • Jul 2000
    • 154488

    #2
    There is no supported way to do this. You can try checking over at www.vbulletin.org to see if someone have made a script for this.
    Steve Machol, former vBulletin Customer Support Manager (and NOT retired!)
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    • Alfa1
      Senior Member
      • Dec 2005
      • 4165
      • 3.8.x

      #3
      Vaultwiki has an importer for mediawiki.
      I buy 420 forums

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      • jamiedolan
        Member
        • Dec 2009
        • 73

        #4
        Thank You.
        Jamie Dolan
        Neenah, WI
        My VB Forum: Paw Dogs

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