Some notes on using MediaWiki

What follows are personal notes on using MediaWiki, originally from 2005, and not much was changed. I must have created them in relation to our using MediaWiki for FreeMind website, which we still do in 2025. MediaWiki is really nice for the purpose, by my assessment. FreeMind project started to use MediaWiki on 10 Sep 2004‎[0].

Backing up content

To back up content of MediaWiki, run the following [1].

php maintenance\dumpBackup.php --full > full.xml

Alternatively, run mysqldump as follows [2].

mysqldump -u user -p password -B wiki-database-name > wikidb.sql

(2025) One could also use the Special:Export function to export the latest revisions or full history into an XML file; one has to provide a list of pages to be backed up/exported in this way.

Installing MediaWiki on SourceForge

See one of the following links.

• Running MediaWiki on Sourceforge.net (Meta at Mediawiki)
• Mediawiki installation on SourceForge (JGlade at SourceForge)
  

More external links

• MediaWiki, mediawiki.org
• Help:FAQ (mediawiki.org), mediawiki.org
• MediaWiki User Guide, wikibooks.org – written mostly by me, I think

Last update: 20 Dec. 2025.