Mediawiki

Follow these instructions to install Mediawiki in Ubuntu system.

To important folders where you will be updating certain files are:

• \var\lib\mediawiki
• \etc\mediawiki

Including many other useful scripts, to export and import XML dump, there are scripts (dumpBackup.php, importDump.php) available in the (\var\lib\mediawiki\maintenance) folder.

To export my own mediawiki, I used following command, which creates dump.xml file in temp folder that contains only current pages of the wiki. To backup everything, you can use --full instead. More detail instruction are available here.

php dumpBackup.php --current >/tmp/dump.xml