Hi Carol,

you could give some website download tool like HTTrack a try.

But which format is more interoperable and timeless than simple text like wiki 
text is? I'd simply archive the page and attachment repository and maybe add a 
copy of the current wiki server installation.

Regarding printer-friendliness, there's an inherent problem: Wikis are 
hypertext, which is not in a linear form like printed text. It's hard to 
serialize hypertext for printing it out in an order that makes sense, at least 
in general and without further semantic markup.

Another possibility which just came to my mind is (mis-)using the JCR export 
tool. It's producing XML, which could then probably be XSL-transformed into a 
suitable format. However, keep in mind that this is just a helper tool which 
was written for migrating a wiki to a future JCR backend.

Regards
 Florian


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Von: "Carol Hassler" <[email protected]>
An: [email protected]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 22. Mai 2012 22:58:20
Betreff: archiving our wiki


My organization would like to archive/export our wiki in some kind of end-user 
friendly format. The concept is to copy the wiki contents annually to a format 
that can be used on any standard computer in case of an emergency (i.e. saved 
as an HTML web-style archive, saved as PDF files, saved as Word files). 

Another way to put it is that we are looking for a way to export the contents 
of the wiki into a printer-friendly format - to a document that maintains some 
organization and formatting and can be used on any standard computer. 

Is anybody aware of a tool out there that would allow for this sort of mass 
export? Our wiki is large and we would prefer not to do this type of export one 
page at a time. 

Thanks!

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