On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 12:09 PM, v0id null <v0idn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> #1: mwdumper has not been updated in a very long time. I did try to use it, > but it did not seem to work properly. I don't entirely remember what the > problem was but I believe it was related to schema incompatibility. xml2sql > comes with a warning about having to rebuild links. Considering that I'm > just in a command line and passing in page IDs manually, do I really need > to worry about it? I'd be thrilled not to have to reinvent the wheel here. > You would need to rebuild link tables if you need them for either mwdumper or xml2sql. For your case it doesn't sound like you'd need them. > #2: Is there some way to figure it out? as I showed in a previous reply, > the template that it can't find, is there in the page table. > As noted in previous reply, your import process is buggy and the page record's page_title field is incorrect, so it cannot be found. You need to correctly parse the incoming title into namespace and base title portions and store them correctly into page_namespace numeric ID and page_title text portion. > #3: Those lua modules, are they stock modules included with the mediawiki > software, or something much more custom? If the latter, are they available > to download somewhere? > They are on the wiki, in the 'Module' namespace. Should be included with a complete dump. I have no idea about the 'articles' dump, but I would assume it *should* include them. > > #4: I'm not any expert on mediawiki, but it seems when that the titles in > the xml dump need to be formatted, mainly replacing spaces with > underscores. > That's another thing your import process needs to do. I recommend using existing code that already has all this logic. :) -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
