Mike McGrath wrote:
I'd like to write a script that checks a few pages
on my mediawiki
install remotely. Probably using urlgrabber. Whats the most efficient
way to determine if a page exists besides just grabbing the page?
-Mike
You could ask Special:Export for all pages at once which avoids querying
each one.
If you want to avoid querying page you already have, you can check its
properties before on api.php