[Mediawiki-l] exporting content ?

[Gerhard Wendebourg]

Rowan Collins schrieb:

>On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:50:59 +0100, Gerhard Wendebourg <gw at web-hh.de> wrote:
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>>since I installed and try a new Wiki-System (V.1 .4.0) there remains one
>>question:
>>which way to export articles or other content out of the system ?
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>There are a number of options, depending on your exact needs.
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>1) use the Special:Export page to generate either the current version
>or history of one or many pages, wrapped in some XML with things like
>title, timestamp, etc
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>2) add "?action=raw" (or "&action=raw", if it's already a "?..." type
>URL) to the URL of a page to return the raw wikitext of that page
>(with a "text/x-wikimarkup" content type to avoid IE sniffing for
>HTML)
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>3) use an appropriate MySQL utility to dump or examine the 'cur'
>and/or 'old' tables 
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Thank you very much for this hint and your extended explanations.
I hadn't realized the function of the cur-table, since this seems to be 
the approprate interface for exchanging content, while I'm mostly 
working with MYSQL-database-applications.

GW