Special:Badtitle/NS90:Forum:Wiki Talk/Technical Question(s) and a suggestion/reply (2)

Thanks for the reply!

I tried using "importdump.php" but from what I could see it choked / froze up sometime after 1400 pages of import (and I ended up having to completely rebuild the VM to get it back to a "default state" -- MySQL refused to start after a forced reboot...

I ended up using a non-GUI version of mwdumper.jar because the Turnkey Linux "appliance" is a "headless" stack-- so there is no GUI for the original jar to use. It seemed to go well enough... except for many pages which are dependent on the templates...

Any idea where I'd look to see what errors occurred?

In MyPHPAdmin, the Mediawiki database 'Templatelinks' table is empty. I also had a bit of weirdness with login with the MySQL password after the VM sat for nearly a day.. I reverted to a snapshot just after I imported the dump and login was fine.

After I get a working VM up and running I'll post my "recipe" for doing so on my talk pages just in case anyone else wants to give this a try.

I suppose I will need a dump of the template pages (tho' I have my suspicions that it won't cure the issues I am having... then again if it weren't for problems we would not learn anything.).

One other question: are there any specific extensions needed to run the ATT version of Wikimedia or should it run with a basic install?

Another bit of weirdness is "special pages>statistics" -- It shows only 1 page even after running ../maintenance/update.php yet it is pretty obvious that there are a lot more than that and the mediawiki DB 'page' table reports 258,000+ pages

It's beginning to look like using a pre-built "headless appliance" as a shortcut to getting a stack up quickly wasn't a particularly good idea.... so I guess I'll have to see if I can find a MediaWiki friendly LAMP stack and try again...

As for the character sheets? Well I really didn't expect things to change. ;-)

After all, the whole idea of a 'tropes wiki' is as a kind of "meta-fictional media" used to describe fiction (or in some cases reality) in an entertaining style [Takes a special kind of writer to do that in a consistent manner-- you page editors out there should be commended!].

Obviously the orientation for ATT should be that of the kind (tongue-in-cheek) readability we've come to love (and expect) over quantitative "accessibility". For my research dabbling, I had fully expected to have to "massage" page information to get it into a "table" which can be queried.... the starting point of course is having the data source in a usable format that I can extract, edit and then put it back into a database that can be queried for the trope relationships. It was that I noticed that there are some pages that either have non-character information or insufficient information for the page to exist for the intended purpose.

A trope wiki page existential question: if a page within the body of the wiki does not have at lease one trope should it exist as a stand alone page?

Thanks again!