Available Backups

Learn to make backups using WikiTeam tools reading our Tutorial.

Available Backups

WikiTeam has made a lot of wiki backups. Please, consider to download them and help to preserve all human knowledge. Here you have a list:

• WikiTeam Collection at Internet Archive (600,000+ wikis, including 30,000+ independent wikis) ← It is our central repository and should contain all the dumps
• Downloads section at Google Code (150+ wikis) (deprecated)
• Scott Boyd's server (300+ wikis)
• ShoutWiki wikifarm August 2011 backup (397 wikis)
• Wikkii wikifarm December 2011 backup (pending upload)
• Referata wikifarm (August 2013) backup
• List of wikibackups at WikiApiary (20,000+ wikis)
• List of wikibackups at WikiIndex
• Some wikis preserve pages deleted by Wikip/media community:
  • DeletionPedia saved 62,000+ deleted pages from English Wikipedia (backup)
  • PlusPedia saved 13,000+ deleted pages from German Wikipedia (backup)
  • Speedy deletion Wiki preserves 500,000+ deleted pages from several wikis (backup, dumps on Internet Archive)
• Wikimedia Commons Grab (2004-2016)
• Citizendium 2012-04-15 dump (full history)
• Wikia wikifarm January 2013 backup (34,174 wikis)
• Wikia wikifarm February 2020 backup (390,000+ wikis)
• Orain.org wikifarm (August 2013) backup (16 wikis)
• Miraheze.org wikifarm (September 2016) backup (685 wikis)
• We are working on many more. Do you want to help? Talk with us and join to the TaskForce.

Most backups include the XML with the full page histories and images. You need a MediaWiki to import all the data. Read this and this to know how to import a backup.

Wiki projects offering backups

Some wiki communities offer backups of their content (usually only wikitext, not images):

• Wikipedia dumps (image dumps outdated, use Kiwix instead)
• Wikia dumps (partial)
• Citizendium dumps (only current revision, not full histories)
• Gentoo Linux Wiki dumps
• OmegaWiki dumps
• OSDev dumps
• Wikifur dumps
• RationalWiki dumps
• ShoutWiki dumps