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>Daniel Barrett wrote: >> For instance, you can write a simple script to hit Special:AllPages >> (which links to every article on the wiki), and dump each page to HTML >> with curl or wget. On January 7, 2014, Richard Pieri wrote: >Yes, but that's not humanly-readable. It's a dynamically generated >jambalaya of HTML, JavaScript, PHP, CSS, and Ghu only knows what else. Well, a script doesn't need human-readability. :-) Trust me, this is not hard. I did it a few years ago with minimal difficulty (using a couple of Emacs macros, if memory serves). The HTML source of Special:AllPages is just a bunch of <a> tags (with some window dressing around it) that all match a simple pattern. -- Dan Barrett dbarrett at blazemonger.com
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