I would think the scripts lsarra mentioned would work best for MediaWiki.
That said, there are a large number of 'archiving' tools that let you take
copies of websites for historical preservation and backup:
e.g.
On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 8:18 PM K. Peachey <p858snake(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There is also MWOffliner which might work you, which
is maintained by
the kiwix team iirc.
On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 at 00:04, Isarra Yos <zhorishna(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Not exactly the same thing, but there is a set of grabber scripts
designed to get and import an entire wiki via the api, but these are
currently mostly just mw maintenance and a few python scripts that only
expect to be used with an actual second mediawiki instance.
That being said, it probably would be a good idea to rearchitect them to
be a bit less redundant with each other, and in so doing also make their
usage a tad more flexible anyway, such as for creating dumps and backups
instead. Whatever the case, at very least they might make a useful
reference point.
See:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Grabbers
-I
On 15/03/2019 18:43, John wrote:
> Unfortunately that doesn’t really work unless it’s a fairly small
wiki. If
> it’s bigger the export request times out.
>
> What I was hoping for was a tool that utilizes either special export
or the
> API to build a dump file using multiple
requests.
>
> I can probably write something to do the same thing, but was hoping
for an
existing
solution
On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 1:12 PM Sterkebak <sterkebak(a)gmail.com> wrote:
XML export if enabled should do the trick.
On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 at 18:04, John <phoenixoverride(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Are there any tools that allow you to create a dump of a mediawiki
install
> that doesn’t require direct database access? My primary focus is on
> creating a backup of the wiki contents.
> Thanks
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