https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34218
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Bug #: 34218
Summary: XML-Dumps should include namespacealiases
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Export/Import
AssignedTo: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
ReportedBy: fgw...@gstaettner.at
Classification: Unclassified
Now XML-Dumps include only <namespaces>. They should also include
<namespacealiases>, because it is a necessary information to work with the
file.
There is no knowledge within a dump file which <namespacealiases> are in the
system. To resolve this someone must have a online connection to the server to
ask the api or ask the administrator.
i.e. The German Wiktionary changed 2009 the name space 104 from "WikiSaurus" to
"Thesaurus" and made an namespacealias. Many links go today to WikiSaurus. In
the system there is the alias and all is OK. But if you download the dump and
after this have no internet connection / or you get the dump file per
harddrive, you have no idea how to handle links to the namespace "WikiSaurus".
Or with an offline-reader which import the dumpfile (like Wikitaxi). There are
many links to this namespace and all articles to which the link should go are
there. But they can not come together.
If there is the information of <namespacealiases> within the XML-Dump, the
interpretation software can read this information and remap the namespace in
their system.
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