On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Dmitriy Sintsov<[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 >
Tags like <ref> which do not appear in core are dumped. You just have to have the extension installed for them to do anything after you've imported the content. If you don't have Cite and ParserFunctions (at a minimum) installed, don't expect much of Enwiki to work after import. That being said: I've found that having Cite and/or ParserFunctions activated *while* importing to slow down the process (and occasionally cause it to halt). It's better to import and then activate the extensions. -Chad -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
