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I'm downloading a dead wiki from the wayback machine using a script I found on GitHub.
I then plan to restore it using the tool html2mediawiki to then host it on my server.
Did anyone already do something like this and has any advice?

@rastinza Maybe search for an XML dump of the same wiki, as it makes it easier to import using Mediawiki's bundled maintenance scripts.

@mint
Thanks! How would you go about finding one of those dumps? The wiki was not mine, I just want to restore it since I find it useful.

@rastinza Search for wiki domain on internet archive, there is a chance it was dumped for someone. If not, you'll have to go with the first approach.

@rastinza
RSS feed page is probably similar to what is suggested but might not be obvious
( as RSS is extended XML which might be good if it the RSS existed for it as it hold data all in 1 page also... and to search for that as keyword or standard page archived ) - might still then be able to feed that into existing RSS progs and ways to give it new life...

@freeschool I doubt an rss feed exists, how would you make a feed out of a wiki?
Anyways, even if that existed I doubt I could get the complete feed from the wayback machine.

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