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99.42.199.89 (talkcontribs)

Long story short but we had someone give us a "dump" of our mediawiki and we can browse through all the files in Finder on a Mac. I have folders such as "cache, docs, extensions, images, includes, languages, etc". What I'm looking for is some sort of XML file in this dump that has page content? I can find all of the images we uploaded but no pages or page content. Does anyone know the structure well enough to help me navigate to the correct location?

Appreciate any help!

AhmadF.Cheema (talkcontribs)

The pages' content is supposed to be present in a database dump. It's not present in a MediaWiki folder, it has to be separately backed up.

A MediaWiki backup consists primarily of two parts: the directories backup (specifically the images directory) and a separate database backup. If your "dump" is only of the MediaWiki directly, then the content will not be available (though maybe some got saved in the cache).

99.42.199.89 (talkcontribs)

That's what I needed to know, thank you very much!