On Friday, November 9, 2012, Platonides wrote:

On 09/11/12 20:21, John wrote:
> I am looking to create a script for creating manual dumps for those
> wikis that either dont or wont publish their own dumps and that I dont
> have server access to. To that end I am writing a python dump creator,
> however I would like to ensure that my format is the same as the
> existing. I could reverse engineer it by looking at multiple different
> dumps but that takes a lot of time and is not fool proof, is there or
> can I get documentation and details on exactly how the XML dumps are
> formatted?

Such script already exists.
See http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/ and its mailing list
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/wikiteam-discuss

If you are proficient in python, you arrive in the best moment, since
there's currently a discussion about fixing a bug in the tool when it
uses the api. :)