Mediawiki maintenance

Documentation

mediawiki static dump tools	https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Static_version_tools
mediawiki dumpBackup xml	https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DumpBackup.php

Backups

Full Backups

To create a full backup, you'll need to:

Backup Database

mysqldump -u wiki -pPASSWORD wikidb > ~/wikidb-backup.sql

Backup Images

TODO

Backup LocalSettings.php

TODO

Static HTML

Tools

mw2html

static-wiki

Home Grown

wikicode parsers

See page of mediawiki parsers here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers

You can render wikicode to html using the actual parser

echo "'''foo'''" | php ${your_wiki}/maintenance/parse.php --title foo

You can find the wiki's contents in the database

SELECT * FROM text LIMIT 10 OFFSET 100;

wget

Captures/correct links, but not as relative links for me. technically can capture CSS too.

wget --recursive \
     --page-requisites \
     --adjust-extension \
     --convert-links \
     --no-parent \
     -R "*Special*" \
     -R "Special*" \
     -R "*action=*" \
     -R "*printable=*" \
     -R "*oldid=*" \
     -R "*title=Talk:*" \
     -R "*limit=*" \
     "https://yourwiki.com"

Zim

wget-2-zim	bash script to scrape mediawiki to zimfile
zim-tools	includes zimwriterfs which dumps mediawiki to zimfile
mwoffliner	scrape a mediawiki to zimfile

Delete Revision History

cd /usr/local/www/mediawiki/maintenance
php deleteOldRevisions.php --delete