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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)
To download a subset of the database in XML format, such as a specific category or a list of articles see: Special:Export, usage of which is described at Help:Export. Wiki front-end software: MediaWiki. Database backend software: MySQL. Image dumps: See below.
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 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)
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.
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.
There are two main ways you can help this project: Find pages that need translation or proofreading, and add them to the list on this page. See #Standard procedures for how to do this.
We suggest text for the edit summary like: Content in this edit is from the existing English Wikipedia article at [[:en: Exact name of English article/page]]; see its history for attribution. Formatting follows.