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hans.voss at gmail

Sep 14, 2005, 8:23 AM

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Merging wiki's

Hello,

I am looking into the possibility of merging two wiki's with each
other I would like to know if it is possible to actually merge the
databases or that a Special:Export <> Special:Import would work. (What
happens with Import/Export when a page already exists?)
Is there even a way to export (and import) the *entire* wiki?

I know I could run all the wiki's side by side and create interwiki
links to create something similar, but that doesn't integrate the
search function.
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joshua.l.bass at lmco

Sep 14, 2005, 8:27 AM

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RE: Merging wiki's [In reply to]

so far, the Special:Import function does not work.

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Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Merging wiki's

Hello,

I am looking into the possibility of merging two wiki's with each
other I would like to know if it is possible to actually merge the
databases or that a Special:Export <> Special:Import would work. (What
happens with Import/Export when a page already exists?)
Is there even a way to export (and import) the *entire* wiki?

I know I could run all the wiki's side by side and create interwiki
links to create something similar, but that doesn't integrate the
search function.
--
----
Met vriendelijke groeten / With kind regards
Hans Voss
---------------------------------------
skype: hans.voss
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brion at pobox

Sep 14, 2005, 1:26 PM

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Re: Merging wiki's [In reply to]

Hans Voss wrote:
> I am looking into the possibility of merging two wiki's with each
> other I would like to know if it is possible to actually merge the
> databases or that a Special:Export <> Special:Import would work. (What
> happens with Import/Export when a page already exists?)

The history would contain all edit on the page names from both wikis
mixed together.

> Is there even a way to export (and import) the *entire* wiki?

cd /bla/firstwiki/maintenance
php dumpBackup.php --full > /tmp/firstwiki.xml

cd /bla/secondwiki/maintenance
php importDump.php /tmp/firstwiki.xml

(These are new in 1.5.)

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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