Liangent wrote:

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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