Hello,
The READ Me is not very newbie friendly...
Don't even know what to do with the .jar file. WHen I double click it nothing happens on my machine. Can anyone give me more detailed instructions on what I'm supposed to do with it?
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Message: 1 Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 16:42:14 -0800 From: Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: New anti-spam initiatives To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@wikimedia.org Message-ID: 43DC0F66.5050505@pobox.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Aerik Sylvan wrote:
Brion - it looks like you're collecting the same
info I set out to get, plus
some more - but is this running live anywhere? I
was under the impression that
the captcha is still totally in development?
Running currently on all but the top 20 Wikipedias plus meta, commons, and a few misc.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
| -----Original Message----- | From: ... J Apple | Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 6:31 PM / | The READ Me is not very newbie friendly...
:-))
| Don't even know what to do with the .jar file. | WHen I double click it nothing happens on my machine.
Any details about your machine OS? But anyway mwdumper have not GUI front-end yet, but works as command-line. So use shell or open your command-line tool, write and execute command like
java -jar proper-path-to/mwdumper.jar --output=file:your-wiki-dump.sql --format=sql:1.5 --progress=10000 your-wiki-dump.xml
Of course "proper-path-to", "/", "your-wiki-dump" are only for example and you must replace them with your really names/symbol. Next, you must have JRE 1.4 or preferable 1.5 installed in your OS. And remember, that the --output argument must be before the --format argument if --format is used.
Reg.
Janusz "Ency' Dorozynski
On 30/01/06, J Apple visoredge@yahoo.com wrote:
Don't even know what to do with the .jar file. WHen I double click it nothing happens on my machine. Can anyone give me more detailed instructions on what I'm supposed to do with it?
1) Near the beginning of the readme, it says:
Sample command line for a direct database import: java -server -jar mwdumper.jar --format=sql:1.5 pages_full.xml.bz2 | mysql -u <username> -p <databasename>
That means you need to be at a shell/command prompt, and type in that command. There is no user-interface built into the tool ("* GUI frontend(s)" is in the TODO list), so double clicking will not do anything even if you have .jar files associated with the appropriate Java interpretter.
Try typing that exact command, and see if it works; if not, play with dumping into a file or connecting directly to the DB (see below).
2) Daunting as they look, the options are neatly divided into 3 categories: a) where do you want your output (e.g. to file; output directly to screen or another command; direct to database); b) what format do you want (e.g. XML, like "export" dumps; SQL data suitable for input to a particular version of MediaWiki c) do you want to do any filtering while you're at it. Ignore the fact that you can have multiple of each, and just pick one "--output" and one "--format", in that order.
3) As a minor "netiquette" issue, please avoid quoting entire message digests (or even whole messages) when you reply; instead, trim the quoted part to just enough to see what you're referring to.
-- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]
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