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diff --git a/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn b/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn index 9719d9a7e..38de01109 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. @@ -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 |