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authorhttp://jmtd.livejournal.com/ <http://jmtd.livejournal.com/@web>2010-04-26 15:14:08 +0000
committerJoey Hess <joey@finch.kitenet.net>2010-04-26 15:14:08 +0000
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### Querying the database
If you have access to the relational database in which your mediawiki data is
-stored, it is possible to derive a list of page names from this.
+stored, it is possible to derive a list of page names from this. With mediawiki's
+MySQL backend, the page table is, appropriately enough, called `table`:
+
+ SELECT page_namespace, page_title FROM page;
+
+As with the previous method, you will need to do some filtering based on the
+namespace.
## Step 2: fetching the page data