I would. I recently did a batch import from an external database (from another wiki). Not using piwikipedia, but directly inserting into the database. The database schema information
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Database_layout
was useful.
For a basic import, inserts into just three tables were needed: * page: page title etc. * revision: metadata about the version * text (pagecontent with postgresql): content of the version
Search didn't immediately work, but did after a while (still not quite sure if you need to edit each page once for it to be indexed, not tested but it seems a bit better than that).
Oliver
On 16 Sep 2007, at 10:40, Dan Bolser wrote:
Should I create a 'version page' for every 'record page' to store this data?
On 14/09/2007, Dan Bolser dan.bolser@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I am working on a MW instance where we batch load a ton of data from an external database. We have about 50,000 records, each of which becomes a MW page. So far so good (we use pywikipedia to load the data). Now it comes to the issue of consistency...