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diff --git a/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn b/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn index db1a1745c..fe0fd46b0 100644 --- a/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn +++ b/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn @@ -48,10 +48,7 @@ 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`) +different namespace. (See below for the default list of namespaces) Note that the page names obtained this way will not include any namespace specific prefix: e.g. `Category:` will be stripped off. @@ -67,6 +64,12 @@ MySQL backend, the page table is, appropriately enough, called `table`: As with the previous method, you will need to do some filtering based on the namespace. +### namespaces + +The list of default namespaces in mediawiki is available from <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Namespace#Built-in_namespaces>, reproduced here for convenience: + +[[mediawiki_namespaces]] + ## Step 2: fetching the page data Once you have a list of page names, you can fetch the data for each page. |