[Mediawiki-l] Importing only new articles

[Moore, David]

If you want to avoid the programming, export the 1,000 existing articles from the new wiki.  Import all of the 10,000 articles you wish to transfer.  Then re-import the 1,000 existing articles.

David Moore
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-----Original Message-----
From: mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Flaherty
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 5:32 PM
To: mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Importing only new articles

Hi all,
I'm looking for a way to import about 10,000 articles into a wiki. The only
catch is about 1000 of these articles have already been created. Ideally i
would like to import only the articles that don't exist and not have any
article get overwritten by the import. Is there a good extension/tool to
prevent an import from overwriting pages that already exist? I have a
feeling that the answer is no and I will have to write a code that would
query the api and disregard found articles. Has anyone done this before?

Thanks so much,
Patrick
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