Don't do that. Synchronizing back is a very
difficult task, and you
will
find yourself in deep trouble very soon. If you
don't do proper
replication conflict resolution, you'll have either junk on your side
or
on the Wikipedia side. In the later case, you'll
probably get blocked
rather soon, in the other case your users will get frustrated because
their edits don't get through.
Regards,
jens
At one wiki site (not a Wikipedia) an improved version of
Special:Ancientpages is used to manually synchrolize between localhost
and webhost clone wiki sites. This version of Special:Ancientpages
allows to select another exportable namespaces besides NS_MAIN and
optionally submits these to Special:Export. By default, the
functionality of Special:Export is very limited (at least it was last
time I was cheking it).
A better approach probably would be introducing an --date option to
maintenance/dumpBackup.php.
The important problem though is, that during XML import not all hooks
are called and extension-specific data is not saved/restored correctly
:-( I think it's major problem that these hooks doesn't allow to pass
their own XML tags into the dumps.
Dmitriy