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> if you write all of your pages in HTML, then they're going to stay HTML unless you invest the effort in writing a parser+translator that converts all of your content into Markdown or Wikitext

That can be a problem the other way around as well. I wanted to convert a Mediawiki-based site to static HTML pages, but ultimately gave up and instead updated to a recent version of Mediawiki, because I couldn't find a solution which would've kept all existing URLs working.




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