Hello all!
Many thanks to Ariel for her help. We have been talking off-list and
trouble-shooting. Thanks again! :)
Well, I found the solution but it is a bit embarrassing. However, I decided
to save future people from the same embarrassment by writing to the list :D
I was using the MediaWiki Special:Export page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Export> not the Wikipedia
Special:Export Page <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export>...
Ehm.. learning curve.. learning curve.
Have a great weekend.
Best,
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On Sun, 6 Jan 2019 at 17:39, Ariel Glenn WMF <ariel(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 4:32 PM Reem Al-Kashif
<reemalkashif(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello!
I hope you are having a good start to the new year. In November 2018, I
downloaded hundreds of English Wikipedia pages from the mainspace using
the
Special:Export
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Export> page for
textual analysis. I tried downloading more today in the same fashion, but
the exported XML files do not have the content of the pages. Maybe I am
doing something wrong or missing something. Any help would be
appreciated.
Can you say more about a sample page that fails to export, and what
settings you used? I just tested it as a logged in user for a sample page
and got the expected content.
I also have a question, if you may, about the Special:Export page. Does it
work on other Wikipedia language editions (e.g.
Arabic)? When I used it
in
> November 2018 to download pages from the mainspace in Arabic, I got
> content-less XML files.
Yes, it works on any project for any language.
Ariel
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