Daniel Kinzler wrote: Thanks Daniel. I have tried MWDumper and the results seem different from importDump.php i.e. the Formatting is messed up. In tracking down what I might be doing wrong - I would prefer to do this using the native method. Secondly, my question here is regarding PHP – not about the Database. I don’t see how a memory leak in PHP can be caused by the Database. Has anyone had practical experience with importDump.php? Did you face any memory issues? Thanks O. O.

Daniel Kinzler wrote: Thanks Daniel. Yes, I think that this may be because the Templates are not imported. (Get a lot of "Template: ..."). Any suggestions on how to import the templates? I thought that the pages-articles.xml.bz2 (i.e. the XML Dump) contains the templates – but I did not find a way to do install it separately. Another thing I noticed (with the Portuguese Wiki which is a much smaller dump than the English Wiki) is that the number of pages imported by importDump.php and MWDumper differ i.e. importDump.php had much more pages than MWDumper. That is way I would have preferred to do this using importDump.php. Also in a previous post, you mentioned about taking care about the “secondary link tables”. How do I do that? Does “secondary links” refer to language links, external links, template links, image links, category links, page links or something else? Thanks for your patience O.O.

Daniel Kinzler wrote: Thanks Daniel. I know that the templates are contained in pages-articles.xml.bz2. However as you said that Mwdumper may not be importing the templates, my question was how to do import it then? Actually was intending to start a separate thread on this topic – because both Mwdumper and importDump.php both report that they are Skipping certain pages. I did not note down the error that I received from Mwdumper – but the errors from importDump.php look like what is below. Skipping interwiki page title '<Page_Title>' Anyway both have the word “Skipping …” as part of their error. I do not have the actual figures – but I noticed that importDump.php seemed to have more pages than Mwdumper. (I unfortunately did not save the output – so I cannot compare how many times I got these errors.) Yes, the script is called rebuildall.php and mentioned in http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Importing_XML_dumps#Using_mwdumper – As you mentioned I was expecting memory problems with this too since importDump.php is already having memory issues. I would try to import the Tables tomorrow to see what I get. Thanks again, O. O.