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diff --git a/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn b/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn index 4a750882b..87b1ebc48 100644 --- a/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn +++ b/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn @@ -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 |