The only issues for Wikimedia projects perservation/forking by third
parties are the missing image dumps (which are being created since some
days ago, thanks Ariel) and the usernames/passwords table (not a big
problem in an apocalyptic scenario, where articles and images have top
priority).
We at WikiTeam are uploading wiki dumps to Internet Archive, and recently
some official mirrors of Wikimedia dumps (articles + images) are being
created around the globe (currently in 3 different locations).
I think we are taking great steps in the last year.
2012/5/17 Kim Bruning <kim(a)bruning.xs4all.nl>
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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Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada. E-mail: emijrp AT gmail DOT com
Pre-doctoral student at the University of Cádiz (Spain)
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StatMediaWiki<http://statmediawiki.forja.rediris.es>
| WikiEvidens <http://code.google.com/p/wikievidens/> |
WikiPapers<http://wikipapers.referata.com>
| WikiTeam <http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/>
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