How to export text from all pages of a MediaWiki?

Question

I have a MediaWiki running which represents a dictionary of German terms and their translation to a local dialect. Each page holds one term, its translation and a number of

Answer 1

You can export the page content directly from the database. It will be the raw wiki markup, as when using Special:Export. But it will be easier to script the export, and you don't need to make sure all your pages are in some special category.

Here is an example:

SELECT page_title, page_touched, old_text
FROM revision,page,text
WHERE revision.rev_id=page.page_latest
AND text.old_id=revision.rev_text_id;

If your wiki uses Postgresql, the table "text" is named "pagecontent", and you may need to specify the schema. In that case, the same query would be:

SET search_path TO mediawiki,public;

SELECT page_title, page_touched, old_text 
FROM revision,page,pagecontent
WHERE revision.rev_id=page.page_latest
AND pagecontent.old_id=revision.rev_text_id;