Rowan Collins wrote:
I think you're muddling lists again! There's
no link to "other
formats" in MediaWiki, and the URL Moritz is looking for is
...&action=raw. Note that this sense a content-type of "text/x-wiki",
mainly so that browsers will treat it as unknown format and suggest
downloading.
Actually, it's specifically a protection against content-type sniffing
in broken browsers like Internet Explorer and Safari. I'd prefer to
serve the material as text/plain so it could display inline in the
browser, but these browsers would then detect the presence of HTML tags,
opening up cross-site scripting attacks and other fun security problems.
Anyway, in addition to action=raw we have Special:Export, which can be
used to bundle up one or more pages at once in a simple XML wrapper
format which contains some metadata (timestamp, username of last editor,
the summary comment, if it was a minor edit, etc).
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)