[Mediawiki-l] Partial export and integration into another Wiki? (incl. pics!)

[Brion Vibber]

Christian Hammers wrote:
> Is there a possibility to export only a subset of a Mediawiki
> to integrate i.e. add it into another, already existing, Mediawiki?
> 
> I tried maintenance/dumpBackup.php and the SpecialPages export but
> both 
>  a) did not dump pics and other media content like PDF pages

Right. It just takes pages, not uploads.

>  b) put <id> tags into the XML output. I guess I could replace
>     those automatically for User-Ids as those are few here or even
>     neglible and replace them with 0 for the page ids as they seem
>     to get a new id during import then.

importDump.php ignores these, so why would you replace them?

>  c) put a special header at the top of the XML file which though can
>     be deleted without giving erros on the import.

Why do you think this is a problem?

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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