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authorJon Dowland <jon@alcopop.org>2009-10-16 11:44:13 +0100
committerJon Dowland <jon@alcopop.org>2009-10-16 11:44:13 +0100
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notes about namespaces
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@@ -42,6 +42,16 @@ to adjust this script too:
Also, if you have pages with titles that need to be encoded to be represented
in HTML, you may need to add further processing to the last line.
+Note that by default, `Special:Allpages` will only list pages in the main
+namespace. You need to add a `&namespace=XX` argument to get pages in a
+different namespace. The following numbers correspond to common namespaces:
+
+ * 10 - templates (`Template:foo`)
+ * 14 - categories (`Category:bar`)
+
+Note that the page names obtained this way will not include any namespace
+specific prefix: e.g. `Category:` will be stripped off.
+
### Querying the database
If you have access to the relational database in which your mediawiki data is
@@ -67,6 +77,12 @@ mediawiki's `index.php` file:
You may need to add more conversions here depending on the precise page titles
used in your wiki.
+If you are trying to fetch pages from a different namespace to the default,
+you will need to prefix the page title with the relevant prefix, e.g.
+`Category:` for category pages. You probably don't want to prefix it to the
+output page, but you may want to vary the destination path (i.e. insert an
+extra directory component corresponding to your ikiwiki's `tagbase`).
+
### Method 2: via HTTP and `Special:Export`
Mediawiki also has a special page `Special:Export` which can be used to obtain