Manual:Merging a wiki into another wiki
Merging a wiki into another wiki can be accomplished with varying degrees of difficulty depending on which parts of it need to be transferred.
Merging articles edit
- In the source wiki, set
$wgExportAllowAll = true. - Use
Special:Exportto export everything from your source wiki to an XML file. - Import the XML file into your target wiki.
Merging media files edit
Manual edit
- Download every file individually from your source wiki.
- Upload each of these files individually to your target wiki with a suitable description.
Automatic edit
- Write a bot to download all the files and their descriptions from the source wiki, saving the descriptions to a text file.
- Use Manual:ImportImages.php to import files with their descriptions.
Merging user accounts edit
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- Possibility to use a shared user table with Extension:UserMerge to migrate individual accounts