Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-9097168-20170407135130/@comment-15278555-20170408142331

Just a couple comments. I think AWB would be the better option unless JWB is already installed because it takes a little fiddling to get it work on a wiki from what I know of it. Not a show stopper but something to consider

Also just FYI, AWB doesn't have an "edit cap" itself, that is a limitation of the Mediawiki API that limits it and it changes for different things, some the limit is 25000.

The exception to this rule is the Category recursive option. So, if you have all the articles categorized some how just as an example: Category:Articles starting with A, or Articles starting with Z, under a category of Articles by alphabetical order, then you would be able to pull in the entire wiki's worth of articles up to about 200, 000. Anything over that, you would have to do it by groups. Such as using the Special search and find all articles with a prefix of A, B, Z, etc. I would argue against doing it larger than about 5000 article chunks though, AWB gets super slow to process in large groups. So if there are a lot, I would suggest doing it in smaller chunks at first for manageability.