I'd like to print an entire wiki / entire namespace for archival purposes - I do some work for a small co-op nonprofit; it's unclear if there will be people around in say 2-42 years from now who will be keeping up their MediaWiki, but it has written documents from 40 years ago that people often enjoy looking at for historical interest, and sometimes even for functional reasons.
Keep in mind this MediaWiki has hundreds and hundreds of pages, so anything that requires selecting a lot of stuff in a clunky way doesn't really work.
The closest thing I've found is linked to below - I actually used this with success ~2009 with a older MediaWiki version (on 1.19.2 now) - but it hasn't been updated against both the extension itself and more recent versions of MediaWiki.
Original: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PdfBook Patch: http://www.mediawiki .org/wiki/Extension_talk:PdfBook#Whole_Namespace_Export
Does anyone know of something similar that works against 1.19.x? I've tried all the obvious candidates, but they don't seem to support this use case.
If not, anyone feel like trying to get the above to work? I'm guessing it wouldn't be too hard for someone with PHP clue - it's 57 lines, but I think all but around 8 of them are just cut-and-paste from another similar function that still exists in the newer PdfBook version.
Thanks for any help, -Danny
Does it have to be an extension? And does it have to print it in PDF format?
-----Original Message----- From: Daniel Clark dclark@pobox.com To: mediawiki-l mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tue, Feb 19, 2013 1:34 pm Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Printing an entire wiki / entire namespace
I'd like to print an entire wiki / entire namespace for archival purposes - I do some work for a small co-op nonprofit; it's unclear if there will be people around in say 2-42 years from now who will be keeping up their MediaWiki, but it has written documents from 40 years ago that people often enjoy looking at for historical interest, and sometimes even for functional reasons.
Keep in mind this MediaWiki has hundreds and hundreds of pages, so anything that requires selecting a lot of stuff in a clunky way doesn't really work.
The closest thing I've found is linked to below - I actually used this with success ~2009 with a older MediaWiki version (on 1.19.2 now) - but it hasn't been updated against both the extension itself and more recent versions of MediaWiki.
Original: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PdfBook Patch: http://www.mediawiki .org/wiki/Extension_talk:PdfBook#Whole_Namespace_Export
Does anyone know of something similar that works against 1.19.x? I've tried all the obvious candidates, but they don't seem to support this use case.
If not, anyone feel like trying to get the above to work? I'm guessing it wouldn't be too hard for someone with PHP clue - it's 57 lines, but I think all but around 8 of them are just cut-and-paste from another similar function that still exists in the newer PdfBook version.
Thanks for any help, -Danny _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Daniel Clark dclark@pobox.com wrote:
I'd like to print an entire wiki / entire namespace for archival purposes - I do some work for a small co-op nonprofit; it's unclear if there will be people around in say 2-42 years from now who will be keeping up their MediaWiki, but it has written documents from 40 years ago that people often enjoy looking at for historical interest, and sometimes even for functional reasons.
Don't forget to make database/XML/HTML dumps too. Admittedly, your organization might not manage to retain them for 40 years, but if it does, someone will still be able to extract the data from them even if MediaWiki is long gone. :-)
Anyway, I got that code working, at least superficially. I just had to change a Namespace:: call to MWNamespace:: and add a missing bracket. I've updated the code on the talk page.
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