Manual talk:Importing XML dumps

link tables?
(regarding mwdumper import) I want to avoid the expensive rebuildall.php script. Looking at http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20080724/, I'm wondering - should we import ALL of the SQL dump files, or are there any that should be skipped? --JaGa 00:50, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, I went through maintenance/tables.sql, and compared what an importDump.php populates and what mwdumper populates (only page, revision, and text tables), so I'm thinking this is the list of SQL dumps I'll want after mwdumper finishes:


 * category
 * categorylinks
 * externallinks
 * imagelinks
 * pagelinks
 * redirect
 * templatelinks


 * Thoughts? --JaGa 07:04, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

When I try to import using this command: C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\mediawiki-1.13.2\maintenance>"C:\Program Files\xampp\php\php.exe" importDump.php C:\Users\Matthew\Downloads\enwiki-20080524-pages-articles.xml.bz2

It fails with this error: XML import parse failure at line 1, col 1 (byte 0; "BZh91AY&SYö┌║O☺Ä"): Empty document

What do you think is wrong?

table prefix
I have a set of wikis with a different table prefix for each of them. How to I tell importDump.php which wiki to use?