[Mediawiki-l] how to copy Special:Allmessages to another wiki

[G.Bierens at fontys.nl]

Just got access to the commandline from my hostingprovider, question now
is, how do I execute rebuildMessages.php ?

thanx,
Gerard
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org
[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] Namens Rob Church
Verzonden: woensdag 30 november 2005 17:28
Aan: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Onderwerp: Re: [Mediawiki-l] how to copy Special:Allmessages to another
wiki

1.5.x and later versions should offer a PHP view under
Special:Allmessages. You can copy and paste this into the
LanguageXX.php file (backup first) in the right place, then run
rebuildMessages.php.


Rob Church

On 30/11/05, G.Bierens at fontys.nl <G.Bierens at fontys.nl> wrote:
> I've tried Jama's solution, but it doesn't work for me. I ended up
> reinstalling MediaWiki from scratch. Anybody knows another way to do
> this?
>
> --Gerard
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org
> [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] Namens Jama Poulsen
> Verzonden: maandag 28 november 2005 0:57
> Aan: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> Onderwerp: Re: [Mediawiki-l] how to copy Special:Allmessages to
another
> wiki
>
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 10:06:32PM +0100, G.Bierens at fontys.nl wrote:
> > I've been finetuning the systemmessages in one wiki, now I want to
use
> them in another wiki which is on a different server. I tried using
> PHPmyAdmin to copy the table 'text' from one wiki to the other, but
that
> does not seem to work. The 'text'-table is 4.2 Mb big, to big maybe or
> is this not the right way at all?
> >
> > Anybody knows how to solve this?
>
> [I don't claim this will work, but its a start]
>
> The system messages (in MW 1.5+) are stored in the "xx_page" table,
and
> cached as one blob in "xx_objectcache" (keyname:
> "yourwikiname:messages").
>
> You'll need to extract all the rows for the Mediawiki namespace:
>
>   SELECT *
>   FROM `xx_text`
>   WHERE `page_namespace` =8
>
> Then you'll need to delete the pages in that namespace from the other
> DB,
> and insert the exported pages (without having ID clashes).
>
> Now you'll also need to remove the cached object and re-edit your
> "Special:Allmessages" page, so the objectcache blob is restored.
>
> And ofcourse before you start, make tested backups.
>
> Jama Poulsen
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