Now try it with one of the huge enwiki dumps with all the stuff on the talk pages on 1.5 mediawiki that's gone through 1 year on the internet with database upgrades through 1.8.2 and tell me if it still works (will take 2-3 days to run with the enwiki dumps even on a fast system). I have installed applicances in the field and folks are coming back about this issue a lot when they try to use various XML dumps from the Foundation.
When mediawiki gets into low memory conditions of any kind, the wheels fly off when imports, reading, and editing or going on at the same time.
Jeff
Kasimir Gabert wrote:
Hello,
I can verify that uploading MediaWiki dumps works.
I was able to successfully import (using *nothing but the built in MW tools*) ba.wikipedia.org to test.kgprog.com in a few minutes with a brand new installation of MW 1.9.3.
The list of things that I had to do (in case Merkey really does want to learn how to do this):
- Download MediaWiki
- Download the dump (for BA wiki and this test it was
http://download.wikipedia.org/bawiki/20070222/bawiki-20070222-pages-articles... )
- Install MediaWiki (many tutorials on doing this)
- Extract the XML file from the bz2 compressed file (I used bunzip2 on Linux)
- Move the extracted xml file to maintenance/dump.xml
- In a terminal cd to maintenance
- Type in "php importDump.php dump.xml"
- Wait for the dump to finish
- Type in "php rebuildrecentchanges.php"
The wiki has now been successfully created with all of the dumped pages from Wikimedia Foundation.
Kasimir
On 2/24/07, Jeffrey V. Merkey jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote:
Domas Mituzas wrote:
Dear Jeffrey,
to have some personal issue, but this is simply reports of bugs and issues which have been floating for over a year and have not been closed.
This is open project, quality patches are always welcome.
I am happy to post them.
Jeff
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