[Wikipedia-l] Re: Snapshot wikipedia installations in schools

[Magnus Manske]

Andy Rabagliati wrote:

>>You can export the main page of en: by using the 
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export (might need to be logged 
>>in). In the field just request "Main Page". It will output a xml feed 
>>that can then be imported in your local wiki.
>>For import you can either use Special:Import page (available to sysops 
>>only, might not be available in 1.2.X versions) or build a little parser 
>>that will read the xml and put it in the database.
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>For this to work for me, it has to be fully automateable, over UUCP. 
>
>Is there a script that will take the XML export and incorporate it
>into the MySQL database so the Mediawiki front end will see it ?
>
>Then a cronjob my end pulls the XML, and sends it to the school
>via UUCP, which stuffs it on stdin to a script, and the wiki is
>magically updated every day.
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I am currently working on a Window$ syncing software. It will be able to 
read the XML created by [[Special:Export]]. All I need on the wikipedia 
end is a function that returns a plain text list of all articles that 
have been edited since a given date. A single, simple SQL query on the 
wikipedia server will do.

Magnus