Hello,

I am new to this list and have a question about importing XML dumps from Wikipedia (http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20121101/) into an offline MediaWiki database. I have locally installed XAMPP on Windows 8 and replaced the included 32-bit MySQL version with the latest 64-bit version. I then installed MediaWiki 1.20.0 with an empty database.

When trying to import an XML dump (Nov 2011 dump) with importDump.php in the maintenance folder of the MediaWiki installation, I get the following error after about 2 seconds:

“WikiRevision given a null title in import. You may need to adjust $wgLegalTitleChars.” which is thrown at line 1032 in Import.php, because some $title seems to be null. Replacing the exception with “$this->title = null” (evil ^^) leads to other errors.

xml2sql and mwdumper seem to be outdated as I cannot get them working with the current dumps. Special:Import is not an option due to the size of the XML files.

Any help would be appreciated J

P.S. it’s not the missing + in $wgLegalTitleChars that is missing which is suggested by a Google Search on that error

Best Regards

Chris