Liangent wrote:
Thanks, I used your example to set up a git repository with notes. I planned to clone the full module-namespace with git,
Huh this makes me think of a git-mediawiki tool (compare with git-svn).
Try mw-to-git, it should work both ways. By now I have only collected ideas and notes, including a rant against the current use of Lua in Wikimedia wikis:
https://github.com/nichtich/wikidata-lua-client#readme
There's already an (inactive) wikipediafs http://wikipediafs.sourceforge.net/
Just a quick idea. Nothing exists in reality.
One might export even large MediaWiki instances to git, but things might get slow and deleted pages are still accessible.
Jakob