Is anyone aware of where the actual contents itself might be easily accessible? Obviously what this means is highly variable but any information/background would be great.
I’m not sure, but my gut feeling is that this would require administrative permissions (since a full dump of a wiki could potentially include private pages - there aren’t many of those on this wiki and they’re purely administrative, but the concept still exists). If you don’t find anything else, I would advise contacting the pydotorg-www mailing list where all the wiki admins hang out.
We don’t have a dump of the wiki publicly available, since this would include lots of PII and also a few private pages which we cannot easily make public.
Now, the main question is: Why would you want to have access to such a dump ?
The public contents are available, the history of each page is available as well and pages can easily be edited - you just need to ask for editor permissions by sending an email to pydotorg-www mailing list.
The source is OSS and available from https://moinmo.in/. The moin team is currently working on a version 2.0 and we are planning to migrate to this new version once it’s stable enough.
The theme we use is available as well via a repo I created for this purpose. I can take changes from there and then install them on the prod system.