Rob,
Thank you for your information. I am so new that I feel like everything I try failed. I will try this duplicator tomorrow if I can figure out how to add the extension. Right now I got stuck with Special:Import because I could not create a sysop user to import the page I exported!!! I wish there is a good book for mediawiki.
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"Rob Church" robchur@gmail.com Sent by: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org 09/17/2007 05:16 PM Please respond to MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org
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Subject Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to copy a page?
On 17/09/2007, Nelson A Li nli@csc.com wrote:
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?
You can use the Duplicator extension (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Duplicator) to make complete independent copies of pages while retaining full histories.
Importing and exporting are core features of MediaWiki; the announcement was a coincidence and is of interest to those attempting to import documents which can be read in OpenOffice and thus exported to our wiki text format for simplified use in a MediaWiki wiki.
Rob Church
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