I don't understand what you are trying to do. Copy the wikitext from the edit box or something else? Export to xml can be done via Special:Export; the xml can then be imported using the maintenance/ importDump.php shell script.
What forms?? Does the wiki you're exporting from have extensions that you don't have on the recipient wiki?
Jim
On Sep 17, 2007, at 1:07 PM, Nelson A Li wrote:
Hello Mediawiki experts,
Looks like I am too new to converse in the right terminology. Sounds like the right name for "copy" is "export & import". However, no body cares to share a little more about the details of 'export/import". I assume it is too trivial to do that. But, somehow it seems that "export/import" is not that trivial after all. There was another message mentioned "OpenOffice.org does mediswiki wikitext export". Does that mean this export (/import?) function is not a media extention? do I need to install another software package (OOo2.3.0) and learn how to use it together with mediawiki?
Nelson
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Subject [Mediawiki-l] How to copy a page?
Hello,
I have posted the following question to the support desk. Then I thought it may be faster to get answers to send this message out:
I am running mediawiki 1.10.1 with php-5.2.4 and MySQL 4.1.20. I need to duplicate a page from another site in my company but my site can not reach
because of firewall configuration. The page copy only worked for wikitext
but not tables and forms.
I looked through all help information. It seems that mediawiki provides page move, merge, rename and wikitext copy features. But it converts tables, inputboxes and submit buttons into paragraphs.
Can someone confirm my doubts or explain to me how to copy pages? Thank you.
Nelson
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