I can do a little better than that, I can whip up something that copies everything based off Special:Allpages. If you want me to do that drop me a email off list and we can work out the details. ~~~~
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Wjhonson <[email protected]> wrote: > How about a script that Googles site:www.myurl.com and then walks every > page and copies it ;) > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Foster <[email protected]> > To: mediawiki-list <[email protected]> > Cc: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list < > [email protected]> > Sent: Mon, Oct 21, 2013 4:58 pm > Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Mediawiki articla export > > > On Mon, 2013-10-21 at 16:46 -0700, Yan Seiner wrote: > > John W. Foster wrote: > > > Is there any way to export ALL the articles & or pages from a very slow > > > but working mediawiki. I want to move them to a much faster upgraded > > > mediawiki server. > > > I have tried the dumpbackup script in /maintainence, but that didn't > get > > > all the pages, only some, a& I dont know why. Any tips are appreciated. > > > Thanks > > > john > > > > > > > > If it's the same version of mediawiki you can always try dumping the > database > directly and importing it into mysql on the new server. I'm not sure but > you > might have to create the exact file structure as well.... > > > Thanks. > I am aware of that solution & in fact it is my preferred method for > moving a wiki. However; the reason the mediawiki is slow is a totally > messed up MySql database system, & I don't know how to fix it. I tried > for over a year, as the wiki has thousands of pages/articles. Therefore > I don't want to move the table structure for this db into the new, > properly functioning wiki. > Anything else, maybe. > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
