I know from experience that a wiki can be re-built from any one of the
dumps that are provided, (pages-meta-current) for example contains
everything needed to reboot a site except its user database
(names/passwords ect). see
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Kim Bruning <kim(a)bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote:
We at Archive Team are attempting to download all the 700,000 Knols.[3]
For
the sake of history. Join us, #archiveteam
EFNET.
I did some followup. I'm not sure I can help out with Knol
anymore, but I discovered that AT is having some trouble
making good archives of wikimedia sites.
Theoretically, wikipedia et al SHOULD be easy to
reconstitute, right? That's why we're using CC licenses
and all. Else if we drop the ball, WP will be gone.
This seems like a priority to me!
The main problem seems to be obtaining commons images:
http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Wikiteam
So at the very least, we don't appear to have very good
documentation. Who could best help Archive Team out? Has
anyone done/written documentation on completely restoring 1
or more wikimedia wikis from 'public backup' [1]?
What can we do to help them?
sincerely,
Kim Bruning
[1] "Real Men don't make backups. They upload it via ftp and
let the world mirror it." - Linus Torvalds
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