From 86484c109d30c0062c5a5056f4adf41c0581b5e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "http://jmtd.livejournal.com/" Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:14:08 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] table name for querying the mediawiki mysql db --- doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn b/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn index 9719d9a7e..db1a1745c 100644 --- a/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn +++ b/doc/tips/convert_mediawiki_to_ikiwiki.mdwn @@ -59,7 +59,13 @@ specific prefix: e.g. `Category:` will be stripped off. ### Querying the database If you have access to the relational database in which your mediawiki data is -stored, it is possible to derive a list of page names from this. +stored, it is possible to derive a list of page names from this. With mediawiki's +MySQL backend, the page table is, appropriately enough, called `table`: + + SELECT page_namespace, page_title FROM page; + +As with the previous method, you will need to do some filtering based on the +namespace. ## Step 2: fetching the page data