On 19/01/06, Peter Laws plaws@plaws.net wrote:
We're using MW 1.4.7 for an internal docs site and now we find we need to split off a sizable chunk into it's own wiki (different user population).
I searched the FAQ but didn't see anything specific. Is there a "magic" way of doing this? I don't see copying and pasting all the content being do-able ...
Probably the best way would be to use the XML export/import tools, the simplest of which is the "Special:Export" and "Special:Import" pages - give Special:Export on one wiki a list of page titles, and it will give you an XML file to upload into Special:Import on the second wiki. (The XML just encodes metadata like title, age, optionally history, etc).
For more complex situations, there's things like mwDumper which are designed for producing database dumps - also in XML wrappers, for compatibiilty.
-- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]