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Special:Export - create error message if #revisions exceeds limit for export
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Author: elwp

Description:
Every attempt to export a long page history (>>100 revisions, eg. de:Bier, 1400
revisions)
fails with either

Sorry- we have a problem...
The wikimedia web server didn't return any response to your request.

or, sometimes,

<html><body></body></html>

How about options like "limit" and "offset"? The following URL could then be
used to export the first 100 revisions.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Export?action=submit&pages=Bier&limit=100&offset=0

Version: unspecified
Severity: normal

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bz1748

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 8:17 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Special-pages.
• bzimport set Reference to bz1748.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Mar 24 2005, 3:32 PM
Raymond added a comment.Jul 4 2006, 9:03 AM

Update after implementation of r15101:

  • No error "Sorry- we have a problem..." anymore
  • If number of revisions exceeds the limit of 100, Special:Export delivers the

<siteinfo>...</siteinfo> section only.

Possible solutions:

  1. See initial comment of El (limit and offset)
  2. Create error message "Too many revisions, no export incl. revisions

possible." or something else

If 1. is too complicate/expensive I prefer 2 as a faster solution. Summary updated.

• bzimport added a comment.Mar 30 2007, 3:46 PM

elwp wrote:

MediaWiki API now provides the desired functionality.

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