Thanks for the help. I will probably end up using the API but thanks for the suggestions. I might use importtextfile.php on another project.
Patrick. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Moore, David <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > Virginia Tech Institute for Policy and Governance > 205 W. Roanoke Street (0489) > Blacksburg, VA 24061-0489 > 540-230-6914 (cell) > 540-231-6775 (office) NEW > 540-231-6722 (fax) > [email protected] > www.ipg.vt.edu > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Patrick Flaherty > Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 5:32 PM > To: [email protected] > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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
