[Mediawiki-l] Populating the help namespace

Tue Jan 17 02:31:26 UTC 2006

Rowan,

Thanks for the quick reply. I tried the Special:Export option and was moderately successful, but I did run into trouble bringing the templates over. Looking at http://www.wikitography.org/wiki/Template:H:f for example should give you an idea of the trouble I'm encountering. 

I feel like i'm close and I hope it's just the templates that are hanging me up.

As far as legality, both Meta and my project are under GFDL so I should be ok there.

I've been documenting what works for me along the way, so once this is complete I'll try to throw together a coherent howto. I can't code, but at least I can write.

~Terry

Rowan Collins wrote:

>> Unfortunately, there is no easy way (unless someone implemented one
>> while I wasn't looking) of downloading all the documentation
>> developed on meta (or the other set which seems to have sprung up
>> on mediawiki.org). (I guess we could really do with an
>> export-by-namespace option, which would work if we moved the
>> relevant templates from their current Template:h* home...)
>>
>> The best you can do, I think, is get (or make) a list of all the
>> pages you want, use Special:Export to plonk them all in an XML
>> file, and then Special:Import (that does work now, right folks?) to
>> shove them in your own wiki. I make no guarantees about the
>> technical or legal validity of these instructions, but it oughta
>> work...
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