On 4/13/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Trying to create a separate program from scratch seems a bit silly, I'm not sure why people keep doing it over and over when it's fairly trivial to make a maintenance script for MediaWiki that runs the parser on each page and dumps the output.
For some of the many attempts people *have* made, see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers
But yeah, for just dumping, I guess command-line access to the "real thing" makes a lot more sense.