Special:Export - create error message if #revisions exceeds limit for export
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	• bzimport
	Mar 24 2005, 3:32 PM

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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,

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

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Severity: normal

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 8:17 PM

• bzimport set Reference to bz1748.

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Update after implementation of r15101:

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

Possible solutions:

possible." or something else

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

elwp wrote:

MediaWiki API now provides the desired functionality.