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jbezos at fundeu

Sep 28, 2009, 3:55 AM

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Moving a namespace

Hello again,

How can I move a namespace to a new index? All I want
is to change the index from 106 to 112, so that articles
in this namespace are still found correctly.

Thanx
Javier

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tor at wikia-inc

Sep 28, 2009, 4:27 AM

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Re: Moving a namespace [In reply to]

On Monday, September 28, 2009, Javier Bezos <jbezos [at] fundeu> wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> How can I move a namespace to a new index? All I want
> is to change the index from 106 to 112, so that articles
> in this namespace are still found correctly.

Off the top of my head, the fastest way would be doing the following
query on the database:

update page set page_namespace = 112 where page_namespace = 106;

and then adjusting $wgExtraNamespaces

Remember to repeat this operation for the talk namespace.

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Lucas 'TOR' Garczewski
Wikia Tech Team

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daniel at brightbyte

Sep 28, 2009, 5:57 AM

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Re: Moving a namespace [In reply to]

Łukasz Garczewski schrieb:
> On Monday, September 28, 2009, Javier Bezos <jbezos [at] fundeu> wrote:
>> Hello again,
>>
>> How can I move a namespace to a new index? All I want
>> is to change the index from 106 to 112, so that articles
>> in this namespace are still found correctly.
>
> Off the top of my head, the fastest way would be doing the following
> query on the database:
>
> update page set page_namespace = 112 where page_namespace = 106;
>
> and then adjusting $wgExtraNamespaces
>
> Remember to repeat this operation for the talk namespace.
>

If you do that, you have to update all secondary tables too: links, logs, etc.

running maintenance/rebuildall.php should help, but i don't know if it will fix
the log entries.

-- daniel

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jbezos at fundeu

Sep 30, 2009, 12:20 AM

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Re: Moving a namespace [In reply to]

> > update page set page_namespace = 112 where page_namespace = 106;
> >
> > and then adjusting $wgExtraNamespaces

>
> If you do that, you have to update all secondary tables too: links,
> logs, etc.

Thank you. As I expected it's not direct :-(. Fortunately,
the namespace is closed (no edits allowed) and its contents
come from a database, so I presume changing just the page
table won't hurt.

Javier

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