On 17/09/2007, Nelson A Li nli@csc.com wrote:
Looks like I am too new to converse in the right terminology. Sounds like the right name for "copy" is "export & import". However, no body cares to share a little more about the details of 'export/import". I assume it is too trivial to do that. But, somehow it seems that "export/import" is not that trivial after all. There was another message mentioned "OpenOffice.org does mediswiki wikitext export". Does that mean this export (/import?) function is not a media extention? do I need to install another software package (OOo2.3.0) and learn how to use it together with mediawiki?
You can use the Duplicator extension (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Duplicator) to make complete independent copies of pages while retaining full histories.
Importing and exporting are core features of MediaWiki; the announcement was a coincidence and is of interest to those attempting to import documents which can be read in OpenOffice and thus exported to our wiki text format for simplified use in a MediaWiki wiki.
Rob Church