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(a)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...
>