Rowan Collins wrote:
I think you're muddling lists again! There's no link to "other formats" in MediaWiki, and the URL Moritz is looking for is ...&action=raw. Note that this sense a content-type of "text/x-wiki", mainly so that browsers will treat it as unknown format and suggest downloading.
Actually, it's specifically a protection against content-type sniffing in broken browsers like Internet Explorer and Safari. I'd prefer to serve the material as text/plain so it could display inline in the browser, but these browsers would then detect the presence of HTML tags, opening up cross-site scripting attacks and other fun security problems.
Anyway, in addition to action=raw we have Special:Export, which can be used to bundle up one or more pages at once in a simple XML wrapper format which contains some metadata (timestamp, username of last editor, the summary comment, if it was a minor edit, etc).
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)