Some questions

[deedeenelson994]

So I've been playing around with the various tools designed to archive WikiMedia projects. Mostly the original Wikiteam and its more recent fork MediaWiki Dump Generator/Wikiteam3. I have a few questions I'm hoping someone could answer:

1. There's a reason to use MediaWiki Dump Generator/Wikiteam3 over the original Wikiteam if one got both to work as intended? Is one better than the other?
2. How does one restore a local wikidump to a browsable copy of the actual site? The article at https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/WikiTeam says "Anyone can restore a wiki using its XML dump and images." but does not explain how to do this. I've tried Xowa and while it works, it's rather buggy and its development appears to be on hiatus.
3. Is there a way to convert a local wikidump to a folder of html contents?
4. Is there a way to convert a local wikidump to a ZIM file?

I'd love an answer to any or all of these questions! :)

[robkam]

1. MediaWiki Dump Generator is a Python 3 rewrite of the original Wikiteam - they're the same thing. MediaWiki Dump Generator uses the current version of Python. MWDG code has some minor improvements over the WT original. Python scripts these day's require Python 3. To run WikiTeam you'd have to especially install the now outdated Python 2.7. and run it separately from your Python 3 installation.
2. To restore a wikidump to an actual wiki, follow the instructions at MediaWiki's Manual:Restoring a wiki from backup.

Questions 3 and 4 are not about MediaWiki Dump Generator. I don't have the experience to answer them. There are better places to ask these questions.

[robkam]

Regarding question 3, Wikipedia has some info that might be useful Dynamic HTML generation from a local XML database dump.