Keep in mind that wikis are non-hierarchical. You can impose a hierarchy on them via content links, but if the structure you want to import *assumes* anything hierarchical, you'll have trouble. It's also a bit confusing that you refer to "a large Mediawiki site" in one place, and elsewhere to "each wiki." I think you mean "each page" in the latter case, but if you are really wanting to generate a number of wiki sites, then it's a different problem. ("Wiki" generally refers to a site, not a page on that site.) In the first case, I agree with Kasimir to dump the database to one plain text file per page, then do a text import. But that will probably lose the hierarchy information, unless you create it in the output text. So with a little coding, you could generate a "breadcrumbs" style hierarchy navigator for each page that would preserve the hierarchy information on import. For example, the page for "MyRestaurant" could include the text "[[Florida]] --> [[Miami]] --> [[South Beach]] --> [[Restaurants]]" at the top of the page. But this sort of imposed hierarchy may be difficult to maintain, if you plan to move things often. :::: I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. -- George Bernard Shaw :::: :::: Jan Steinman http://www.EcoReality.org :::: _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l