Thread:Project:Support desk/Wiki revisions history -- SVN/Git/Hg?/reply (3)

Ok, then my first thought was right :D But: MediaWiki saves the articles and revisions not in files, the content is saved in a database, e.g. MySQL. So you need to export the database first. Alternative you can export the articles as XML and import them (with revisions if selected) in a new wiki (see Special:Export and Special:Import or using commandline). For further information to that, see: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Importing_XML_dumps

With git/svn or something else it would be simply impossible i think :)