Help:Downloading pages - Misplaced Pages

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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.

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