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A checkbox in the Special:Export interface selects whether to export the full history (all versions of an article) or the most recent version of articles. A maximum of 1000 revisions are returned; other revisions can be requested as detailed in MW:Parameters to Special:Export .
In the Print/export section select Download as PDF. The rendering engine starts and a dialog appears to show the rendering progress. The rendering engine starts and a dialog appears to show the rendering progress.
The wikipedia.org servers need to do quite a bit of work to convert the wikicode into HTML. That's time consuming both for you and for the wikipedia.org servers, so simply spidering all pages is not the way to go. To access any article in XML, one at a time, access Special:Export/Title of the article. Read more about this at Special:Export.
Alternatively one can copy the wikitext, i.e. the text in the edit box (the source code within the database).. This has a limited use. There is more information in the webpage than conveyed by the wikitext:
Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks – list of sites reusing Wikipedia content, discussion of their licensing compliance; Wikipedia:Buying Wikipedia articles in print or another form; Wikipedia:Linking to Wikipedia; Meta:Importing and exporting table – table showing when it is OK to import from/export to various different licensing schemes
If you want to import many articles, it is usually a good idea to ask first if the material is appropriate for Wikipedia, for example, on Wikipedia:Village pump. If there is a very high number of articles, you may also want to consider writing or using a bot (i.e. a script) to import them; see Wikipedia:Bots for guidelines. Over 30,000 articles ...
It can open almost any file format. It can export to Mediawiki: File menu > export > save as type > MediaWiki. It will save the file as a .txt file which can be opened with any text editor. Copy the wiki code from the text file. You can save any web page as an HTML file, and then open it in LibreOffice Writer. Edit as needed.
Go to File → Send-To → To MediaWiki or File → Export → Save file as: Mediawiki; Select your MediaWiki-server (or click on the button "Add..." to add a new site). Select a title and summary for your article, check the box if it's a minor revision. Click the send button.