On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 4:32 PM Reem Al-Kashif <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I hope you are having a good start to the new year. In November 2018, I
> downloaded hundreds of English Wikipedia pages from the mainspace using the
> Special:Export <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Export> page for
> textual analysis. I tried downloading more today in the same fashion, but
> the exported XML files do not have the content of the pages. Maybe I am
> doing something wrong or missing something. Any help would be appreciated.
>

Can you say more about a sample page that fails to export, and what
settings you used? I just tested it as a logged in user for a sample page
and got the expected content.

I also have a question, if you may, about the Special:Export page. Does it
> work on other Wikipedia language editions (e.g. Arabic)? When I used it in
> November 2018 to download pages from the mainspace in Arabic, I got
> content-less XML files.
>

Yes, it works on any project for any language.

Ariel
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