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

This worked very well for me. Notice I redirected the output to the file backup.xml. From a Windows Command Processor (CMD.exe) prompt:

cd \PATH_TO_YOUR_WIKI_INSTALLATION\maintenance
\PATH_OF_PHP.EXE\php dumpBackup.php --full > backup.xml