Last modified: 2009-03-18 22:01:35 UTC
Special:Import will eat all ampersands! Do not use Special:Import unless you want your imports damaged. Same problem for importDump.php. Your file will not make the round trip Special:Export -> Special:Import unscathed! importTextFile.php is safe though. Proof: Make a page called [[Test]] whose wikitext is: 1&2&[http://x.y/bla?o&p=q&r=s&v=t ooo] Then run this shell script: site=http://my.example.com POST "$site/index.php?title=Special:Export&action=submit" <<EOF|tee 1.xml|sed s/Test/Test2/ > 2.xml catname=&nsindex=0&pages=Test&curonly=1&wpDownload=1 EOF diff -U0 [12].xml #Then import 2.xml via Special:Import or importDump.php. Then for i in '' 2 do GET "$site/index.php?title=Test$i&action=raw"; echo done You will see: - <title>Test</title> + <title>Test2</title> 1&2&[http://x.y/bla?o&p=q&r=s&v=t ooo] 12amp;[http://x.y/bla?op=qr=samp;v=t ooo] The last line is the mangled result. Tested on a wiki with $wgLanguageCode='zh-tw'. Probably affects en too.
(In reply to comment #0) > Special:Import will eat all ampersands! Please try not to be hyperbolic.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 16554 ***