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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)
Tables, including most infoboxes, are rendered. Some small types of box used for local on-wiki information are omitted. Images and galleries are rendered; Long equations are overflowing; The "Download as PDF" option might not appear when using a custom theme on Wikipedia on some desktop web browsers.
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.
Put the copy in folder C:\wiki (another drive letter is also possible, but wiki should not be a sub-folder) and do not use any file name extension. This way the links work. This way the links work. One inconvenient aspect is that you cannot open a file in a folder listing by clicking on it, because of the lack of a file name extension.
Use a find/replace feature of a text editor and find all "</username>" and replace it with "@en.wikipedia.org</username>" Save. You should now be ready to import the file via Special:Import on another MediaWiki wiki.
The MediaWiki software that Wikipedia runs on uses Cascading Style Sheets in order to specify the style and layout that is suitable to a printed version of the page. In modern browsers, the print function of the browser should automatically use the rules in the style sheets when you print an article, therefore the print command of your web ...
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 ...
Add appropriate links and disambiguate if required. Linking should occur only on the first appearance of a term, except in a longer article, where a term will be linked once in the lead and once in the body of the article. An extremely long article may have repeated instances of linking towards the bottom of the page.