If anyone's curious, I've whipped up a quick XML dump filter tool, which
can take a MediaWiki XML backup dump and filter it by title, based on a
regular expression match or a file with a list of pages to take.
I used it to split up the Wikisource dump to move pages with their edit
histories from the old Wikisource wiki to the new language-specific
subdomain wikis (import of these dumps going on right now).
It's in C# (gasp horror) and runs on Mono. I haven't tested it on
Microsoft .NET, but it probably runs there.
Source is available in the mwdumper module in CVS. No binaries or
documentation at this time, but I expect to continue working on it for
use in creating republisher-friendly dumps in the future.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)