#Mediawiki org full#

(After export you can use alternative parsers to convert wikitext to other format) You only get the wikitext as you get when editing the article. In the current version the export format does not contain an XML replacement of wiki markup (see Wikipedia DTD for an older proposal, or Wiki Markup Language).

If you don't use a special XML editor '' appear as < and >, to avoid a conflict with XML tags to avoid ambiguity, '&' is coded as '&'.

If you directly read the XML source it won't be difficult to find the actual wikitext. Alternatively the XML-source can be viewed using the 'view source' feature of the browser, or after saving the XML file locally, with a program of choice. This format is not intended for viewing in a web browser, though some browsers show you pretty-printed XML with '+' and '-' links to view or hide selected parts. This format is codified in XML Schema at. The format of the XML file you receive is the same in all ways.

A maximum of 1000 revisions are returned other revisions can be requested as detailed in MW:Parameters to Special:Export.

#Mediawiki org full#

Now you can use this XML file to perform an import.ДЄ checkbox in the Special:Export interface selects whether to export the full history (all versions of an article) or the most recent version of articles. Scroll to the bottom to check for error messages.

Save the resulting XML to a file using your browser's save facility.

Go to Special:Export and paste all your page names into the textbox, making sure there are no empty lines.

'Help:Contents'), unless the selected namespace is the main namespace.

Prefix the namespace to the page names (e.g.

Copy the list of page names to a text editor.

Go to Special:Allpages and choose the desired namespace.

To export all pages of a namespace, for example.ДЎ. This is how dumps of the database were made available before MediaWiki 1.5 and it won't be explained here further. Optionally you can get all versions with date, time, user name and edit summary.ДЄdditionally you can copy the SQL database. This won't be explained here.Д«y default only the current version of a page is included.

Use the Python Wikipedia Robot Framework.

OAI-PMH contains a wrapper format around the actual exported articles. For Wikimedia projects this interface is not publicly available.

There is an OAI-PMH-interface to regularly fetch pages that have been modified since a specific time.

Dumps of mediawiki projects are (more or less) regularly made available at. You need to have direct access to the server to run this script. dumpBackup.php only works on MediaWiki 1.5 or newer.

The backup script dumpBackup.php dumps all the wiki pages into an XML file.

Use the API to fetch data in XML or JSON packaging.

it's important to use /w/index.php?title=PAGENAME&action=raw and not /wiki/PAGENAME?action=raw (see Phab T126183) (This fetches just the page's wikitext and not the XML format described below.) For example.

Paste the name of the articles in the box in Special:Export or use.

There are at least six ways to export pages: