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Jon Dowland 2009-10-16 11:44:13 +01:00
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Also, if you have pages with titles that need to be encoded to be represented
in HTML, you may need to add further processing to the last line.
Note that by default, `Special:Allpages` will only list pages in the main
namespace. You need to add a `&namespace=XX` argument to get pages in a
different namespace. The following numbers correspond to common namespaces:
* 10 - templates (`Template:foo`)
* 14 - categories (`Category:bar`)
Note that the page names obtained this way will not include any namespace
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
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You may need to add more conversions here depending on the precise page titles
used in your wiki.
If you are trying to fetch pages from a different namespace to the default,
you will need to prefix the page title with the relevant prefix, e.g.
`Category:` for category pages. You probably don't want to prefix it to the
output page, but you may want to vary the destination path (i.e. insert an
extra directory component corresponding to your ikiwiki's `tagbase`).
### Method 2: via HTTP and `Special:Export`
Mediawiki also has a special page `Special:Export` which can be used to obtain