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### 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