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| ] shows the possibilities for saving a local copy of a webpage. | ] shows the possibilities for saving a local copy of a webpage. | ||
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| === A set of linked pages === | |||
| When saving a local copy of pages, please note the following. | |||
| A link to e.g. the train article in Misplaced Pages is given in the HTML-code as <code>/Train</code> . This refers to <code>http://en.wikipedia.org/Train</code> . Depending on your browser settings, the former may be changed into the latter when saving the page. To avoid this, apply View Source and save that. | |||
| Put the copy in folder <code>C:\wiki</code> (another drive letter is also possible, but wiki should not be a sub-folder) and do not use any file name extension. This way the links work. One inconvenient aspect is that you cannot open a file in a folder listing by clicking on it, because of the lack of a file name extension. | |||
| A problem with saving the source code is that images are not saved automatically with the page. Saving them separately in a place corresponding to the HTML code is cumbersome, e.g. the first image of the train article would have to be <code>C:/upload/thumb/c/c2/250px-Tile_Hill_train_550.jpg</code> | |||
| If the images are more important than the mutual links, then one can use the browser 'save page' option to save the webpage with images. | |||
| Of course variations are possible by changing the HTML-code oneself, e.g. changing <code>http://en.wikipedia.org</code> to <code>C:</code> and/or adding the file name extension .htm . | |||
| == Downloading the wikitext of a page == | == Downloading the wikitext of a page == | ||
Revision as of 09:34, 29 September 2016
Downloading pages is saving a MediaWiki page as a local copy.
Downloading a page as HTML file
Saving a web page shows the possibilities for saving a local copy of a webpage.
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Downloading the wikitext of a page
Alternatively one can copy the wikitext, i.e. the text in the edit box (the source code within the database).
This has a limited use. There are more information in the webpage than conveyed by the wikitext:
- images
- content of templates referred to (to access a full wikitext, with all templates being expanded, use Special:ExpandTemplates; it has the effect of the recursively applied "subst:" operation).
- values of variables
- existence at the time of saving of linked internal pages
- date and time of the last edit before saving
- in the Image namespace (Image description pages): the image itself, the image history and the list of pages linking to the image
- in the Category namespace: the lists of subcategories and pages in the category.
Information in the wikitext but not in the webpage:
- comments (even though HTML also allows comments)
See also XML export.
See also
- Misplaced Pages:Database download
- Help:Export, for downloading to another MediaWiki site
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