[Mediawiki-l] How to copy a page?

Tue Sep 18 19:13:33 UTC 2007

The only book available that I know of is 'MediaWiki Administrators'
Tutorial Guide' by Mizanur Rahman.  It is from Packt Publishing
(actually a pdf download that you can print out). www.packtpub.com  It
is pretty good and gives you some 'basics' that help to start *thinking*
wiki.

When you installed your wiki you were prompted for a admin password.
This is what you want to use.  Once you are in the admin user you can
change a user rights.

DSig
David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation
PICK Guy
206-770-5585
davesigafoos at sanmar.com 

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Hello,

SOS!  Anybody please help.

1. I got a page exported but could not import because I need to create a

"sysop" group user to import.  But, it seems that I could not figure out

how to create this "sysop" group" and an user in that group.  Can
somebody 
waste a little time to help a new comer?

2. Eventhough  I know that there are two camps of user IDs (one for wiki

usage and one for mysql). I still get confused when reading the
reference 
documentation.  It seems that people take it for granted assuming 
everybody is able to distinguish which camp of user IDs they are talking

about. 

3. Is there a good mediawiki book that I can find examples for basic
(e.g. 
creating a page, edit a page, setting directory & files permissions, how

to incorporate an extension...) operations?  Of course if there is a 
comprehensive list of mediawiki commands (I mean .php files) and their 
usages will be even better. 

Nelson
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I think what you are looking for is the Export/Import.

In your wiki if you enter Special:Export in the search edit line you
will get a page where you can enter individual page names or enter a
category to get a list of pages for that category.  Then Export will
generate a big XML page which you could save to a file.

Then to imnport to a wiki use Special:Import and enter (or select) the
file from disk.  This will read the xml in and build the page(s).

Is this what you are looking for?

DSig
David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation
PICK Guy
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davesigafoos at sanmar.com 

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Hello Mediawiki experts,

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?

Nelson
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Hello,

I have posted the following question to the support desk.  Then I
thought 
it may be faster to get answers to send this message out:

I am running mediawiki 1.10.1 with php-5.2.4 and MySQL 4.1.20.  I need
to 
duplicate a page from another site in my company but my site can not
reach 

because of firewall configuration.  The page copy only worked for
wikitext 

but not tables and forms. 

I looked through all help information.  It seems that mediawiki provides

page move, merge, rename and wikitext copy features.  But it converts 
tables, inputboxes and submit buttons into paragraphs. 

Can someone confirm my doubts or explain to me how to copy pages?  Thank

you.

Nelson
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