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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.
In the current version the export format does not contain an XML replacement of wiki markup (see Wikipedia DTD for an older proposal, or Wiki Markup Language). You only get the wikitext as you get when editing the article. (After export you can use alternative parsers to convert wikitext to other format)
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:
Pages on Wikipedia can link to equivalent pages in other languages. The English article on Spain includes a link to the Spanish article España in the "Languages" list, and vice versa. These links are primarily maintained in Wikidata and can be overridden in rare cases using local links in the text of the page. Using Wikidata is the preferred ...
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.
Wikipedia's inbuilt Download as PDF option. Other PDF software can be used to create a PDF from the web page, which may give more control over the output. This page offers help with Wikipedia's download tool.
The text may be for a completely new article (see Help:New article), or to expand an existing English Wikipedia article. If text is copied over from another Wiki then appropriate attribution must be placed in the edit history of the article (see the guide line Copying within Wikipedia §Translating from other language Wikimedia projects)
This tests simulate the behavior that would show the wiki code in a Wikipedia page. The installer may be downloaded free from the Offline MediaWiki Code Editor site. Both the installer and the application interface are available in English, Spanish, German and French. Last update (October 13, 2024) can be downloaded from here.