Mike McGrath wrote:
I'd like to write a script that checks a few pages on my mediawiki install remotely. Probably using urlgrabber. Whats the most efficient way to determine if a page exists besides just grabbing the page?
-Mike
You could ask Special:Export for all pages at once which avoids querying each one. If you want to avoid querying page you already have, you can check its properties before on api.php