GuildWiki talk:Database dumps

Size
How about specifying the size of the dumps as well? All articles = 37.44MB, build articles = 5.62MB. -- Ab.Er.Rant (msg Aberrant80) 22:50, 4 May 2007 (CDT)
 * Shoot, I knew I forgot to copy something over! &mdash;Tanaric 00:06, 5 May 2007 (CDT)

Images
What about images, like maps? They don't seem to be in the dump. Do I use a modified Wikix program? That seems pretty server-hostile. 85.214.63.253 14:00, 6 May 2007 (CDT)


 * That would be moderately server-hostile, yes. Do it at night, if you need to. &mdash;Tanaric 19:10, 6 May 2007 (CDT)

Problem reading dump
Hmm, I can't seem to import the dump in my Mediawiki installation. I get the message 'Unknown import source type'. Anyone succeeded in importing these dumps? Of course I extracted the xml files. They look ok at a glance. --Toxaris 06:05, 12 May 2007 (CDT)
 * That error doesn't mean the dump is bad but either that something is messed up with your MW install or you're just doing something wrong. The "import source" for Special:Import is supposed to either be a file upload or an interwiki transfer.  For example, if you view Special:Import on your wiki and look at the HTML for the page, you can see a hidden field in the form with name "source" and value "upload".  You can look at the code in includes/SpecialImport.php for where it checks the value against "upload" and "transwiki" but shows that error if it's not either.  --Fyren 06:28, 12 May 2007 (CDT)
 * I had no problem reading the XML data into MW 1.9.3. However, the standard method is slow (which is documented and known).  Other problems include (1) needing additional MW extensions (undocumented), and (2) images aren't included in the XML dumps.  I hate to say this, but you really do need advanced MW knowledge to deal with the XML.  192.26.10.2 05:24, 20 May 2007 (CDT)


 * We have no problem with this -- we are under no obligation to provide a tutorial on how to use these. That said, if anybody would like to write such a tutorial, that would be very helpful. Make a subpage with your proposed change and it will be merged upon admin approval. &mdash;Tanaric 19:25, 20 May 2007 (CDT)