https://openjournal.wiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=OpenJournal%3AHelping_outOpenJournal:Helping out - Revision history2026-09-11T00:28:20ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.43.9https://openjournal.wiki/index.php?title=OpenJournal:Helping_out&diff=21&oldid=prevOpenJournalAdmin: how to download a copy of the site2026-09-10T19:58:29Z<p>how to download a copy of the site</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>openjournal is nothing but MediaWiki, wikitext and Apache configuration -- every<br />
article on this site can leave with you.<br />
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== Download the database ==<br />
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<div class="oj-download"><br />
[{{SERVER}}/download/openjournal-latest.xml.gz Download the database dump]<br />
</div><br />
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That is a standard '''MediaWiki XML export''' -- the same format<br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download Wikipedia's own public<br />
dumps] use. It carries every article and every revision, attributed by username.<br />
It does '''not''' carry passwords, email addresses, or anything else about accounts<br />
-- that is the whole reason this format exists, separately from a raw database<br />
backup, and it is why it is safe to download and pass around.<br />
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It is a snapshot, refreshed by hand rather than live, so it can lag behind the<br />
site by a while. If you want the current moment instead of the last snapshot, the<br />
[[OpenJournal:API|API]] reads straight from the live wiki.<br />
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== What to do with it ==<br />
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Anyone running their own MediaWiki can load the file directly:<br />
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* through the browser, at '''Special:Import''' -- or<br />
* from the command line: <code>php maintenance/run.php importDump openjournal-latest.xml.gz</code><br />
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Either way you end up with your own copy of every article here, on your own wiki,<br />
under your own control. Nothing about openjournal is required to read it further<br />
than that.<br />
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== Anything else ==<br />
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This page exists because someone asked for exactly this: a way to take the data<br />
and go. If there is a different kind of help that would actually be useful --<br />
writing, fixing something, saying what is missing -- '''Discussion''' on this page<br />
reaches whoever maintains the site.</div>OpenJournalAdmin