A couple of ideas: - on a page by page basis you can see what version of a resource was available at any given time through the history function; or - take snapshots of the database at key times & have these available to be restored into an empty wiki as and when required. You would also need to backup the images directory at the same time. cd \MySQL\bin mysqldump -u wikiusername -pwikiuserpassword wikidb > \backup\wikidb.sql xcopy \mediawiki\images\*.* \backup\images /s /e Al. -----Original Message----- From: Jason Davies [mailto:ucgajpd@ucl.ac.uk] Sent: Wednesday, 18 May 2005 5:47 a.m. To: mediawiki-l(a)wikimedia.org Subject: [Mediawiki-l] archiving wiki We are using the wiki for teaching and discussion. Now it transpires that we must provide some kind of record of what resources were available to the students at a given point. it's obviously not a question of a normal dump of HTML: I don't think anyone minds *that* much what form it takes but it will need to be accessible to non-techy people. any suggestions on these 'snapshots' gratefully received. Thanks. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l