Ive used this to dump what I hoped would be a complete backup of my local hosted mediawiki. Th purpose of which was to import the .xml file to a new working server. The script to import it did the job. however the dumped.xml file did not contain all the articles. It uploaded 476 of a site that contains 5391 articles. Just wondering why. Ive done it 3 times with no different results. john