I have attempted to export the Infobox template from Wikipedia by going to the Special:Export page, typing in Template:Infobox in the box labeled "Add from this category", and ticking all three boxes at the bottom (ie. Include only the current revision, not the full history; Include templates; Save as file
The problem is that I am not being prompted to save the XML file.
Am I doing something wrong? I tried using IE8 and Firefox in case it was a browser issue, but the results are the same.
How do I get this export to work?
Thanks, Sandy
Sandy Rozhon wrote:
I have attempted to export the Infobox template from Wikipedia by going to the Special:Export page, typing in Template:Infobox in the box labeled "Add from this category", and ticking all three boxes at the bottom (ie. Include only the current revision, not the full history; Include templates; Save as file
The problem is that I am not being prompted to save the XML file.
Am I doing something wrong? I tried using IE8 and Firefox in case it was a browser issue, but the results are the same.
How do I get this export to work?
Thanks, Sandy
Template:Infobox is not a category. Add it to the textarea that appears below that.
I'm still confused. What category should I be using? What exactly do I enter in that box? "Template"? "Infobox"? Neither of those do anything.
Sandy
On 31 Jul 2010 at 0:29, Platonides wrote:
Sandy Rozhon wrote:
I have attempted to export the Infobox template from Wikipedia by going to the Special:Export page, typing in Template:Infobox in the box labeled "Add from this category", and ticking all three boxes at the bottom (ie. Include only the current revision, not the full history; Include templates; Save as file
The problem is that I am not being prompted to save the XML file.
Am I doing something wrong? I tried using IE8 and Firefox in case it was a browser issue, but the results are the same.
How do I get this export to work?
Thanks, Sandy
Template:Infobox is not a category. Add it to the textarea that appears below that.
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Sandy Rozhon wrote:
I'm still confused. What category should I be using? What exactly do I enter in that box? "Template"? "Infobox"? Neither of those do anything.
Sandy
You can leave the input box blank. It is a convenience for filling pages from categories, so you write there a category name, like 'Wikipedia_bots', press Add and have the textarea filled with pages on that category.
The export button only cares with the textarea content.
Thank you for being more specific, but I still seem to be having problems with this export page. The good part is that I am now getting the XML prompt and am able to download the file that is being produced. The bad part is that no matter what I enter in the text box, I always get the EXACT SAME FILE which is nothing more than a list as follows:
<mediawiki xmlns="http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.4/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.4/ http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.4.xsd" version="0.4" xml:lang="en"> <siteinfo> <sitename>Meta</sitename> <base>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page</base> <generator>MediaWiki 1.16wmf4</generator> <case>first-letter</case> <namespaces> <namespace key="-2" case="first-letter">Media</namespace> <namespace key="-1" case="first-letter">Special</namespace> <namespace key="0" case="first-letter" /> <namespace key="1" case="first-letter">Talk</namespace> <namespace key="2" case="first-letter">User</namespace> <namespace key="3" case="first-letter">User talk</namespace> <namespace key="4" case="first-letter">Meta</namespace> <namespace key="5" case="first-letter">Meta talk</namespace> <namespace key="6" case="first-letter">File</namespace>
On 3 Aug 2010 at 15:37, Platonides wrote:
Sandy Rozhon wrote:
I'm still confused. What category should I be using? What exactly do I enter in that box? "Template"? "Infobox"? Neither of those do anything.
Sandy
You can leave the input box blank. It is a convenience for filling pages from categories, so you write there a category name, like 'Wikipedia_bots', press Add and have the textarea filled with pages on that category.
The export button only cares with the textarea content.
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Sandy Rozhon wrote:
Thank you for being more specific, but I still seem to be having problems with this export page. The good part is that I am now getting the XML prompt and am able to download the file that is being produced. The bad part is that no matter what I enter in the text box, I always get the EXACT SAME FILE which is nothing more than a list as follows:
<mediawiki xmlns="http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.4/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.4/ http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.4.xsd" version="0.4" xml:lang="en">
<siteinfo> <sitename>Meta</sitename> <base>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page</base> <generator>MediaWiki 1.16wmf4</generator> <case>first-letter</case> <namespaces> <namespace key="-2" case="first-letter">Media</namespace> <namespace key="-1" case="first-letter">Special</namespace> <namespace key="0" case="first-letter" /> <namespace key="1" case="first-letter">Talk</namespace> <namespace key="2" case="first-letter">User</namespace> <namespace key="3" case="first-letter">User talk</namespace> <namespace key="4" case="first-letter">Meta</namespace> <namespace key="5" case="first-letter">Meta talk</namespace> <namespace key="6" case="first-letter">File</namespace>
That XML is incomplete (a timeout?). What are you providing as input to the textarea? Note: the textarea is the big input box.
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