How to dump a MediaWiki for offline use?

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Published on 2012-04-20T08:44:41Z Indexed on 2012/11/09 17:22 UTC
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I would like to be able to make an offline version of a MediaWiki site on a weekly basis.

The DumpHTML extension actually does what I want, as it dumps all articles and media files, but I can't see any index of all the articles it have dumped, so I can't navigate in the dump.

Reading about the XML dump feature MediaWiki have, I wonder if it would be possible to either use a program to view these files or perhaps convert them to html?

Or are there other ways to make an offline version of a MediaWiki site?

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