extensions/ContentTransfer/maintenance/executeTransfer.php

Reference

Usage

php extensions/ContentTransfer/maintenance/executeTransfer.php --category=GlobalPage --targets=Target1,Target2,Target3

There 3 ways to specify pages to transfer:

--category (as it is done above),
--namespace (similar with --category) and
--pages. --pages option let you explicitly specify pages needed to transfer:

php extensions/ContentTransfer/maintenance/executeTransfer.php --pages=Page1,Demo:Page2,Page3 --targets=Target1,Target2,Target3

Configuration

Maintenance script can consume JSON file with necessary configuration. Sample JSON file is located by this path: extensions/ContentTransfer/docs/transfer-config.json.example. This file can be used to create JSON configuration file somewhere to not type all options in CLI each time.

For that, --json-config option can be used. There can be specified path to the file with JSON configuration.

If you need to create your own JSON configuration file, copy sample JSON file somewhere and edit it to set necessary configuration.

For example, you have file /home/some_user/config/transfer-config.json. Then it can be used like that:

php extensions/ContentTransfer/maintenance/executeTransfer.php --json-config=/home/some_user/config/transfer-config.json

You can specify either absolute file path from the root or relative path from present working directory.

Note!

It is also possible to use JSON file and additionally pass options from CLI. In that case options from CLI will have greater priority and will override same options from JSON file.

Example:

php extensions/ContentTransfer/maintenance/executeTransfer.php --json-config=/home/some_user/config/transfer-config.json --pages=Page1,Demo:Page2,Page3 --targets=Target1,Target2,Target3

Here script will read configuration from the JSON file specified, but “pages” and “targets” options will be overridden from CLI (if they are presented in JSON).

Same with other options.

Options

--userContext user of "sending" wiki who will be used to transfer wiki pages. Actually it\'s just about recording transfer in DB. Default: “MediaWiki default”
--only-modifiedIf page should be transferred only if it was modified since last transfer. It's just a flag, it can be passed or not.
--modified-sinceTransfer page only if was modified since specified date. Date must be specified in format "DD.MM.YYYY". Default: “”
--include-relatedIf all related wiki pages should also be transferred. Like templates, files, links which are used on transferring page. It's just a flag, it can be passed or not.
--forceTransfer page if it is protected on receiving wiki. It's just a flag, it can be passed or not.

Also there is --dry option (it's a flag too), which may be useful if user just wants to take a look at transferring titles, but without actual changes in “receiving” wikis.

Complete list of possible options with descriptions can be got by such command:

 php extensions/ContentTransfer/maintenance/executeTransfer.php --help

If there is a need to set specific user for creating pages in target wiki (in case with multiple available for that users), it can be done by that way:

php extensions/ContentTransfer/maintenance/executeTransfer.php ... --targets=Target1=User1,Target2=User2,Target3...

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