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@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ Personal sites and blogs
* [Chris Dombroski's boring bliki](https://www.icanttype.org/)
* [Josh Triplett's homepage](http://joshtriplett.org/) - Git backend with the CGI disabled, to publish a static site with the convenience of ikiwiki.
* [Gustaf Thorslund's blog](http://blog.thorslund.org)
+* [Ertug Karamatli](http://pages.karamatli.com)
Please feel free to add your own ikiwiki site!
diff --git a/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn b/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn
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@@ -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.
@@ -59,7 +56,28 @@ 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
-stored, it is possible to derive a list of page names from this.
+stored, it is possible to derive a list of page names from this. With mediawiki's
+MySQL backend, the page table is, appropriately enough, called `table`:
+
+ SELECT page_namespace, page_title FROM page;
+
+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>. Here are reproduced the ones you are most likely to encounter if you are running a small mediawiki install for your own purposes:
+
+[[!table data="""
+Index | Name | Example
+0 | Main | Foo
+1 | Talk | Talk:Foo
+2 | User | User:Jon
+3 | User talk | User_talk:Jon
+6 | File | File:Barack_Obama_signature.svg
+10 | Template | Template:Prettytable
+14 | Category | Category:Pages_needing_review
+"""]]
## Step 2: fetching the page data