Thanks for the help. I will probably end up using the API but thanks for the
suggestions. I might use importtextfile.php on another project.
Patrick.
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Moore, David <dmoore(a)vt.edu> wrote:
If you want to avoid the programming, export the 1,000
existing articles
from the new wiki. Import all of the 10,000 articles you wish to transfer.
Then re-import the 1,000 existing articles.
David Moore
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mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Flaherty
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 5:32 PM
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Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Importing only new articles
Hi all,
I'm looking for a way to import about 10,000 articles into a wiki. The only
catch is about 1000 of these articles have already been created. Ideally i
would like to import only the articles that don't exist and not have any
article get overwritten by the import. Is there a good extension/tool to
prevent an import from overwriting pages that already exist? I have a
feeling that the answer is no and I will have to write a code that would
query the api and disregard found articles. Has anyone done this before?
Thanks so much,
Patrick
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