On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Petr Kadlec <petr.kad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> page_title does not contains the full title, only its
> namespace-relative part. You need to use
> select page_namespace, page_title from wikidb.page
> Only this whole tuple (page_namespace, page_title) is a unique
> identifier of a page (this is true for the whole MediaWiki).

And note that the namespace is stored as a number.  You'll need to
refer to a list of the namespace numbers on the specific wiki you're
dealing with to translate it into the appropriate prefix.  There's a
way to get the list from the API, but I don't know it offhand.

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