On 11-03-28 08:09 AM, Tod wrote: > On 03/26/2011 12:03 AM, Andrew Garrett wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Tod<listac...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> This is a fork of this thread: >>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/228949?page=last >>> >>> >>> Is there a possibility that I could instead (easily) merge the handful >>> of individual wiki's content into one consolidated wiki and implement a >>> more enhanced search against it instead? I've no experience performing a >>> merge like this so expert advice would be appreciated! >> Have you tried dumping all of your wikis (see >> <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/XML_dump#XML_dump>), and importing all >> of the dumps into one wiki? >> > I'm working with a group that has customized their mediawiki > installation so that they can create multiple wiki instances, each with > their own database, that have no knowledge of each others existence. > This was done for security and privacy reasons. > > The dumpBackup.php utility seems to be built for a single mediawiki > instance that uses a single database so there is no option to pass it a > database name to dump. > > I can dump each individual databases and try to merge them. Has anybody > tried that? > > > Thanks - Tod Our Maintenance class includes a --wiki param which accepts something like --wiki=thedb or --wiki=thedb-theprefix and sets MW_DB and MW_PREFIX constants you can use in your LocalSettings.
Though I could have sworn rather than that we had a proper wiki setting that set a variable with a wiki id the LocalSettings could use in the cli in place of the domain testing you have for web requests. ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
