On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:56 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:

On 31 March 2011 17:39, Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:

...

What is mw_tools?

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mw_tools - unofficial toolkit by User:Wanglong.

That warning at the top makes me feel nice and cuddly ;-)

-Chad

Dear list, dear chad, dear Platonides,

sorry for the delay!

The Special:Export sounds complicated to me if I want to backup all pages since I have to give all the pagenames. Do I not see the global solution?

01.04.2011 00:28, Platonides:

wiki@idnp.de wrote:

...

Hej list,

I want to backup mediawiki on webserver w/o shell, I learned that mw_tools.zip from allwiki.com should be my friend. Unfortunately allwiki.com is down and I don't know any other source. Do you know an alternative download?

Another way of backing up without shell-access?

Thank you in advance!

regards Holger

Do you have access by ftp? phpmyadmin?

Make a database dump with phpmyadmin and download the uploaded files by ftp.

I hesitate to do so because I'm not sure about the Character_set and I don't want to cramp the database if it is latin1. Until now I couldn't find the place in phpmyadmin to determine the Character_set reliable.

Any hints?

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Backing_up_a_wiki#Character_set

regards Holger

Dear Frank,

Am 14.04.2011 18:59, schrieb nakohdo:

Try using http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MaintenanceShell

The wiki-Version is 1.6.7, oh what a shame, thought it was 1.15. I installed the MaintenanceShell but it won't work! :(

How can I determine the character-set fom phpadmin to do the proper dump?

regards Holger