OpenJournal:Helping out
openjournal is nothing but MediaWiki, wikitext and Apache configuration -- every article on this site can leave with you.
Download the database
That is a standard MediaWiki XML export -- the same format [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download Wikipedia's own public dumps] use. It carries every article and every revision, attributed by username. It does not carry passwords, email addresses, or anything else about accounts -- that is the whole reason this format exists, separately from a raw database backup, and it is why it is safe to download and pass around.
It is a snapshot, refreshed by hand rather than live, so it can lag behind the site by a while. If you want the current moment instead of the last snapshot, the API reads straight from the live wiki.
What to do with it
Anyone running their own MediaWiki can load the file directly:
- through the browser, at Special:Import -- or
- from the command line:
php maintenance/run.php importDump openjournal-latest.xml.gz
Either way you end up with your own copy of every article here, on your own wiki, under your own control. Nothing about openjournal is required to read it further than that.
Anything else
This page exists because someone asked for exactly this: a way to take the data and go. If there is a different kind of help that would actually be useful -- writing, fixing something, saying what is missing -- Discussion on this page reaches whoever maintains the site.