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# wiki.bash-hackers.org
Extraction of wiki.bash-hackers.org from the Wayback Machine
The popular wiki.bash-hackers.org had its DNS expire in April 2023, with the owner seemingly being incommunicado. It looked like this domain would be in the region of €1k to purchase - ouch.
This is targeting pages that have been captured by the Wayback Machine that specifically have `?do=edit` on the end of their URL. These pages give us the Dokuwiki Markup source, relatively unmolested.
Fortunately, Archive.org has snapshotted this website, and so we can extract wiki.bash-hackers.org from archive.org's Wayback Machine.
Additionally, the web server behind wiki.bash-hackers.org is still running, for now, so we can use an entry in our `hosts` file (`/etc/hosts` on *nix, `c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts` on Windows) that reads:
```bash
83.243.40.67 wiki.bash-hackers.org
```
This repo is targeting pages that have been captured by the Wayback Machine that specifically have `?do=edit` on the end of their URL. These pages give us the Dokuwiki Markup source, relatively unmolested - maybe with a bit of errant html to strip. We then convert the original source to GitHub markdown.
See the incomplete script "archive_crawler" to see my working. I would not recommend blindly running it - it's beta quality at best. Just read it and this page to follow the logic... or just fork this repo... or whatever, I'm not your Dad.
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So basically, we remove everything from the first line to the line that contains `name="sectok"`, and then we remove everything after `</textarea>`, and what's left should be the Dokuwiki Markup that we want.
## Converting to Markdown
We'll convert to Github Markdown using `pandoc`
Custom edits that `pandoc` doesn't handle will have to be figured out over time.
### Note panels
The original dokuwiki source has several of the following entries:
```bash
\<note tip\>The syntax is somewhat confusing in that you would think
that the arrow would point in the direction of the copy, but it's
reversed. So it's `target>&source` effectively.\</note\>
```
We convert these to markdown tables with emojis .e.g
```bash
| :bulb: The syntax is somewhat confusing in that you would think
that the arrow would point in the direction of the copy, but it's
reversed. So it's `target>&source` effectively. |
| --- |
```
## LICENSE
As per the original wiki.bash-hackers.org: