[Mediawiki-l] page ID value in imported XML files

Tue May 16 16:45:08 UTC 2006

OK. Thanks Brion. I'll just make these a dummy value for my purposes,
since I'm adding new pages to an existing wiki.

The XML I/O functions have worked well so far. I'm creating a bunch of
keyword definition pages using text files and macros to generate the
XML, and importing on a test server before importing the final pages to
a production server. The only thing that would make it easier would be
if you could force it to do a rebuild from the import page instead of
having to log in to a shell to run the maintenance script.

When I'm done, I'll see if I can add any info I've learned to the FAQ
and/or reference pages.

-Jeff

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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] page ID value in imported XML files

Jeff Lane wrote:
> Does anyone know the importance (if any) for the <id>value</id> in XML

> files imported into Mediawiki?

The page's id is the page_id, the revision's id is the rev_id.

importDump.php does not preserve these; it's meant for importing pages
into an existing wiki.

mwdumper does; it's meant for reproducing a complete wiki.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)