> Don't do that. Synchronizing back is a very difficult task, and you will > find yourself in deep trouble very soon. If you don't do proper > replication conflict resolution, you'll have either junk on your side or > on the Wikipedia side. In the later case, you'll probably get blocked > rather soon, in the other case your users will get frustrated because > their edits don't get through. > > Regards, > > jens > At one wiki site (not a Wikipedia) an improved version of Special:Ancientpages is used to manually synchrolize between localhost and webhost clone wiki sites. This version of Special:Ancientpages allows to select another exportable namespaces besides NS_MAIN and optionally submits these to Special:Export. By default, the functionality of Special:Export is very limited (at least it was last time I was cheking it).
A better approach probably would be introducing an --date option to maintenance/dumpBackup.php. The important problem though is, that during XML import not all hooks are called and extension-specific data is not saved/restored correctly :-( I think it's major problem that these hooks doesn't allow to pass their own XML tags into the dumps. Dmitriy _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
