XML dumps are xml dumps regardless of the backend used. The importdump.php tool that I referenced takes care of the minor differences between the versions. Go ahead and follow the process for importing XML databases.
On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Jefsey <[email protected]> wrote: > At 02:44 02/08/2016, John wrote: > > For mass imports, use importDump.php - see < > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Importing_XML_dumps> for details. > > > Dear John, > > Thank you for your response. But I am dump myself and I am still lost. > > I am not sure I made my need clear enough. I had wikis under MySQL I > dumped in XML. So I have n XML files to create n separate SQLite wikis. One > file one SQLite wiki (n is around 35). > > When I try to read with an XML viewer these files, they tell me that some > character in line 295 or so is wrong and they cannot read it, so I do not > really know how they are structured. > > Therefore, my question is about how to create the n SQLwikis I need and > import in each the pages which are in XML dumped from MySQL. > > Also, further on, I understand that the manual is reporting about MySQL > dumps, not about SQLite dumps? Does that mean that I should consider their > backup with SQLite tools rathere than mediwiki tools? Hence my question > about a mediawiki SQLite section/mailing list? > > Sorry I am pretty new to this and need to take care of a lot of small > Libre/Citizen/locally oriented wikis, with more to come. So I try to figure > out the best way to manage all this .... > > Thank you ! > > jfc > > > On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 8:37 PM, Jefsey <[email protected]> wrote: > I am not familiar with databases. I have old MySQL based wikis sites I > cannot access anymore due to a change in PHP and MySQL versions. I have old > XML dumps. Is it possible to reload them under SQLight wikis? These were > working group wikis: we only are interested in restoring texts. We have the > images. We are not interested in the access rights: we will have to rebuild > them anyway. > > Thank you for the help ! > jefsey > > PS. We dedicate to light wikis which are OK under SQLight, would there be > a dedicated list to SQLight mangement (and further on development)? > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
