Hello Paul,
What I would do is dump the database to plain text files, and then use
MediaWiki's standard text input script. As long as nothing is that
outlandish, this should work.
Let me know if this helps,
Kasimir
On 2/16/07, Paul Coghlan <pcoghlan(a)usa.net> wrote:
After posting this at
mediawiki.org and
mwusers.com
and receiving no replies
at all I will try here.
I am building a large Mediwiki site which will consist of about 40k pages,
all related through location.
The pages are structured/related and I have the source for the wiki
'skeleton' or schema and can massage it in Access/Excel/MySQL into any
required format for an import into Mediawiki.
For example:
Florida
+Miami
++South Beach
+++Restaurants
++++MyRestaurant
+++Bars
++++MyBar
+++Shopping
++++MyShop
++North Miami
+Fort Lauderdale
+Palm Beach
Georgia
+Atlanta
I think you get the idea!
What I am looking for is to import all of this into MW with some default
text which is identical for each wiki.
Is there a published format for this type of import?
Looking at the changes that exist in the database when I create a page
within Mediawiki itself there appear to be changes to multiple tables; page,
text, revision etc.
If someone can point me in the right direction I will publish to results of
the final solution as I feel there are a number of people looking for fast
wiki creation.
Thanks in advance for ANY input,
Paul
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