[Mediawiki-l] Populating the help namespace

[Terry Auspitz]

Rowan,

Thanks for the quick reply. I tried the Special:Export option and was
moderately successful, but I did run into trouble bringing the
templates over. Looking at
http://www.wikitography.org/wiki/Template:H:f for example should give
you an idea of the trouble I'm encountering.

I feel like i'm close and I hope it's just the templates that are
hanging me up.

As far as legality, both Meta and my project are under GFDL so I
should be ok there.

I've been documenting what works for me along the way, so once this is
complete I'll try to throw together a coherent howto. I can't code,
but at least I can write.

~Terry

Rowan Collins wrote:

> Unfortunately, there is no easy way (unless someone implemented one
> while I wasn't looking) of downloading all the documentation
> developed on meta (or the other set which seems to have sprung up
> on mediawiki.org). (I guess we could really do with an
> export-by-namespace option, which would work if we moved the
> relevant templates from their current Template:h* home...)
>
> The best you can do, I think, is get (or make) a list of all the
> pages you want, use Special:Export to plonk them all in an XML
> file, and then Special:Import (that does work now, right folks?) to
> shove them in your own wiki. I make no guarantees about the
> technical or legal validity of these instructions, but it oughta
> work...