Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-5903676-20140724105900/@comment-7981828-20140724114204

Unfortunately, this is where it gets technical, so I'll try to make it easy for you.

Once you acquire a database dump, you need to import it into an installation of MediaWiki (which you can set up on your computer or even a USB stick)

You should consult MediaWiki.org for more instructions how to do this.

Wikia uses a specially modified version of MediaWiki 1.19, though you can use any MediaWiki version if you prefer, though you will require certain extensions to make certain features work as intended (again, you will need to consult MediaWiki.org). Also, database dumps ony contains text content, they do not contain images, so you will need to import those separately.