I don't understand what you are trying to do. Copy the wikitext from the edit box or something else? Export to xml can be done via Special:Export; the xml can then be imported using the maintenance/ importDump.php shell script. What forms?? Does the wiki you're exporting from have extensions that you don't have on the recipient wiki? Jim On Sep 17, 2007, at 1:07 PM, Nelson A Li wrote: ===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054

Dave, Thank you for your information. I tried the Special:Export but got stuck with Special:Import. It says that I need to be in sysop group to import. I created an account and login with it. But I can not find how to make my account a sysop. Could you or anyone help? Thank you for your help. Nelson -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Dave Sigafoos" <davesigafoos(a)sanmar.com> Sent by: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org 09/17/2007 03:09 PM Please respond to MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> To "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> cc Subject Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to copy a page? I think what you are looking for is the Export/Import. In your wiki if you enter Special:Export in the search edit line you will get a page where you can enter individual page names or enter a category to get a list of pages for that category. Then Export will generate a big XML page which you could save to a file. Then to imnport to a wiki use Special:Import and enter (or select) the file from disk. This will read the xml in and build the page(s). Is this what you are looking for? DSig David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation PICK Guy 206-770-5585 davesigafoos(a)sanmar.com -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Nelson A Li Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 11:07 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to copy a page? Hello Mediawiki experts, 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? Nelson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------- This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------- Nelson A Li/CIV/CSC@CSC Sent by: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org 09/14/2007 05:29 PM Please respond to MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> To "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> cc Subject [Mediawiki-l] How to copy a page? Hello, I have posted the following question to the support desk. Then I thought it may be faster to get answers to send this message out: I am running mediawiki 1.10.1 with php-5.2.4 and MySQL 4.1.20. I need to duplicate a page from another site in my company but my site can not reach because of firewall configuration. The page copy only worked for wikitext but not tables and forms. I looked through all help information. It seems that mediawiki provides page move, merge, rename and wikitext copy features. But it converts tables, inputboxes and submit buttons into paragraphs. Can someone confirm my doubts or explain to me how to copy pages? Thank you. Nelson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------- This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. 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The account you created when you first installed Mediawiki should be a sysop. The documentation isn't great in places, you're right. I think the mysql account details are only needed in one place in localsettings.php (and maybe in adminsettings.php). Anything else talking about accounts is most likely talking about mediawiki accounts. Not that I know of. Most of the documentation is either on mediawiki.org or meta.wikimedia.org.

Hi Nelson, as far as I know there is no user-group sysop, because there is only one sysop-user per wiki-installation. In my wiki-installation the sysop-user is called WikiSysop (which I think is the default). This user appears in special:userlist, but is not denoted as sysop. When you try to log in as WikiSysop, it's important to use upper- and lowercase letters. Wikimedia will ignore the case of the first letter of a username, but will not accept a wrong case in the other letters. So logging in as wikiSysop is accepted, trying it as Wikisysop isn't. Nelson A Li schrieb: If you don't change any of the default userrights, your wiki is open to everyone. But you have to log in as your sysop-user to be allowed to import pages (or do other maintenance-stuff)... Try to log in as the user you created during the wiki-setup. Hope it works out. :-) Greetings Kate

Yes. My problem is how to add the user into a group? Thank you. Nelson -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Thomas Dalton" <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> Sent by: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org 09/18/2007 11:19 AM Please respond to MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> To "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> cc Subject Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to copy a page? think is the sysop. Permissions can't be given directly to users, only to user groups, and users added to groups, so there has to be a sysop group if you are to have any sysops. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Thanks for the clarification. :-) Alexis Moinet schrieb: -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Katharina Wolkwitz Fachhochschule Südwestfalen Hochschulbibliothek Haldener Straße 182 58095 Hagen Tel.: 02331/987-2706

This is the kind of information that can really help! Thank you. Looks like I have to reinstall mediawiki. It is fine because I have not been able to do much yet. But, are we saying there is no way to create an ID in sysop group after the installation? Also, everytime I ask a question, someone feed me one spoon of "using Special:Xxxx". It is like magic! Where do you guys hide your secret book? Can I get one to hide too? :)) Nelson Btw, Can enyone teach me how to install extensions? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Daniel Barrett" <danb(a)VistaPrint.com> Sent by: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org 09/18/2007 10:43 AM Please respond to MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> To "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> cc Subject Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to copy a page? When you installed MediaWiki, you created a sysop user, default name WikiSysop (unless you changed it). It's a required part of the web-based installation. Hit your wiki page Special:Listusers to see all the usernames on your wiki. The sysop user should be marked as a sysop. If you don't remember the password, I imagine you could use mySQL directly to remove that user's password, then log in and change it. Or at worst, run the MediaWiki installation again (which should not affect your existing database). DanB _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Thomas Dalton wrote : Actually it's only bureaucrats that can use that page ;-) (WikiSysop happens to be both bureaucrat and sysop)

Thomas Dalton wrote: There's a password reset script in /wiki/maintenance/. It uses the MySQL user/password (in AdminSettings.php) to access, so you can use it even if the only user in the wiki the "lost" WikiSysop. As long as you haven't lost the MySQL administrator's password, of course... Mike

The only book available that I know of is 'MediaWiki Administrators' Tutorial Guide' by Mizanur Rahman. It is from Packt Publishing (actually a pdf download that you can print out). www.packtpub.com It is pretty good and gives you some 'basics' that help to start *thinking* wiki. When you installed your wiki you were prompted for a admin password. This is what you want to use. Once you are in the admin user you can change a user rights. DSig David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation PICK Guy 206-770-5585 davesigafoos(a)sanmar.com -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Nelson A Li Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 6:39 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Cc: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to copy a page? Hello, SOS! Anybody please help. 1. I got a page exported but could not import because I need to create a "sysop" group user to import. But, it seems that I could not figure out how to create this "sysop" group" and an user in that group. Can somebody waste a little time to help a new comer? 2. Eventhough I know that there are two camps of user IDs (one for wiki usage and one for mysql). I still get confused when reading the reference documentation. It seems that people take it for granted assuming everybody is able to distinguish which camp of user IDs they are talking about. 3. Is there a good mediawiki book that I can find examples for basic (e.g. creating a page, edit a page, setting directory & files permissions, how to incorporate an extension...) operations? Of course if there is a comprehensive list of mediawiki commands (I mean .php files) and their usages will be even better. Nelson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------- This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------- "Dave Sigafoos" <davesigafoos(a)sanmar.com> Sent by: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org 09/17/2007 03:09 PM Please respond to MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> To "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> cc Subject Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to copy a page? I think what you are looking for is the Export/Import. In your wiki if you enter Special:Export in the search edit line you will get a page where you can enter individual page names or enter a category to get a list of pages for that category. Then Export will generate a big XML page which you could save to a file. Then to imnport to a wiki use Special:Import and enter (or select) the file from disk. This will read the xml in and build the page(s). Is this what you are looking for? DSig David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation PICK Guy 206-770-5585 davesigafoos(a)sanmar.com -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Nelson A Li Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 11:07 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to copy a page? Hello Mediawiki experts, 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? Nelson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------- This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------- Nelson A Li/CIV/CSC@CSC Sent by: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org 09/14/2007 05:29 PM Please respond to MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> To "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> cc Subject [Mediawiki-l] How to copy a page? Hello, I have posted the following question to the support desk. Then I thought it may be faster to get answers to send this message out: I am running mediawiki 1.10.1 with php-5.2.4 and MySQL 4.1.20. I need to duplicate a page from another site in my company but my site can not reach because of firewall configuration. The page copy only worked for wikitext but not tables and forms. I looked through all help information. It seems that mediawiki provides page move, merge, rename and wikitext copy features. But it converts tables, inputboxes and submit buttons into paragraphs. Can someone confirm my doubts or explain to me how to copy pages? Thank you. Nelson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------- This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. 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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. Nelson -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Rob Church" <robchur(a)gmail.com> Sent by: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org 09/17/2007 05:16 PM Please respond to MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> To "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> cc Subject Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to copy a page? On 17/09/2007, Nelson A Li <nli(a)csc.com> wrote: like to is not install with 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 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l