What I did

• git clone git@github.com:peterjc/mediawiki_to_git_md.git

• Start with an empty repo

    git clone git@github.com:NESCent/Tools-for-Evo-Hack.git
  

• cd Tools-for-Evo-Hack

• scp -p siren:/deposit/inputs/dumps/gmodevohackathon.xml.gz ./

• gunzip gmodevohackathon.xml.gz

• install docker

• define a 'pandoc' command, put it on path

    \#!/bin/bash
    exec docker run -v \`pwd\`:\`pwd\` jagregory/pandoc $*
  

• kludge the invocation of 'pandoc' in convert.py to compensate for use of docker

    [... '/path...to.../Tools-for-Evo-Hack/' + mw_filename],
  

• create empty user_blacklist.txt

• create usernames.txt (I tried putting entries in it, that didn't work, next time should try empty)

• invoke with

    python /path...to.../gmodevohackathon/mediawiki_to_git_md/convert.py \`pwd\`/gmodevohackathon.xml
  

I could have used 'brew install pandoc' and avoided docker and the kludge and pwd nonsense entirely, but I didn't think of that. (The standard OS X pandoc installer fails, but brew works just fine.)

After converting 363 pages I got

fatal: No existing author found with 'hlapp'
Return code 128 from git commit

so I don't know whether it finished or not.

When viewed in github, the hyperlinks between pages don't work, because they just say wiki/Foo instead of wiki/Foo.md. However, if the content were served by apache, wiki/Foo.md (which is stored in the file) would be a variant of the resource wiki/Foo (virtual resource subject to content negotiation), so maybe it's all OK. If this turns out to be a problem, a simple sed script will fix it.