Mediawiki maintenance
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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.sqlBackup Images
TODO
Backup LocalSettings.php
TODO
XML Dumps
You can dump the entire wiki as XML, and then use an XML parser to convert it to various other formats.
cd /usr/local/www/mediawiki/maintenance php dumpBackup.php --full --quiet > dump.xml# mediawiki's builtin parser cat dump.xml | php ${your_wiki}/maintenance/parse.php --title foo # parsoid # pandoc pandoc dump.xml -f mediawiki -t html -o dump.htmlStatic HTML
Tools
mw2html static-wiki 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
xmldump2zim create zimfile from a mediawiki XML dump 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