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Dwarf Fortress Wiki:Offline wiki
Ok so im mostly just dumping my process here in the hopes that it gets picked up and cleaned/formatted to fit the rest of the wiki
The basic idea is that you aim a script at a mediawiki and have it create a dump of the XML and images in a format thats compatible with the standard MediaWiki import utilities. Once its dumped to file, you import it into a local MediaWiki instance that can be started on-demand.
Step 1: Get a Mediawiki dump
I did this by using the scripts provided by wikiteam. In my case, my command is as follows:
python dumpgenerator.py --api=http://dwarffortresswiki.org/api.php --index=http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php --xml --images --curonly --path dfwiki
The arguments are mostly self-explanatory, and there are many, many more. The most useful of which is the --resume option, that will let you restart a stalled/killed/stopped dump operation
Warning: this process may take very, very long. While the --curonly flag will make it skip histories, but the default namespace options mean it will still download ALL pages, including file definitions and talk pages.
Step 2: Get a Mediawiki install going.
I used a very simple XAMPP + mediawiki stack provided by Bitnami
Step 3: Import your pages
I used the maintenance scripts. The special page might work, but i had issues getting the file uploaded due to its size. Best is to use the importDump.php script, but even that took its time.
Step 4: Import your images
I used the MediaWiki importImages.php maintenance script.
Once you have your files imported, you should be able to navigate to http://127.0.0.1/mediawiki/ to get going