There is now a tarball of each of the wiki sites that
are running as
"Wikipedia". Go to the homepage
. These are just tarballs of the
entire directory that the sites are served from.
Jason
sanger1(a)nupedia.com wrote:
Bryce (just realized that I had replied just to
you rather than the
list): I sympathize, but posting on this list frankly isn't going to
get anything done. I do only a little work directly on the server;
Jason's the man who will have to do this, if this or something like
it is what we'll end up doing, exactly. What Jason might not know
(so, I've cc'd him) is how seriously you all take this. I certainly
would like to see Wikipedia's content easily useable--it will get a
lot of new links back to Wikipedia and it will indeed make the
project more credible, as someone very correctly said. I have wanted
this to be done for months, but, well--our programmers are very busy
with projects that actually make money. :-/
Larry
You Wrote:
I think what people are trying to politely say is
that you may be in
violation of your license...
My suggestion to get around this with a minimum of time expended
would
be to set up a cron job to tarball the wiki
databases once a week.
Login as www-data or nobody or root or whomever
$ crontab -e
0 5 * * 0 /usr/local/bin/tarball_wiki # Weekly Sunday 5am tarball
#!/bin/sh
## tarball_wiki script
tar cf /tmp/wiki.tar /home/www-data/wiki_db /home/www-data/cgi-
bin/wiki.pl
gzip /tmp/wiki.tar
rm -f /home/www-data/html/wiki.tar.gz
mv /home/www-data/html/wiki.tar.gz /home/www-data/html/wiki-
prev.tar.gz
mv /tmp/wiki.tar /home/www-data/html/wiki.tar.gz
This will keep the current plus previous week's tarball.
Obviously, you'll have to fiddle the paths to match however your
system
is organized. You might need to add some
chmod/chown commands if
you do
this as a user other than the web user.
Anyway, IANAL, but I think this little script would get you off the
hook
regarding the transparency issue.
Bryce
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 sanger1(a)nupedia.com wrote:
> I agree completely as well. You all must realize, though, that
the
> amount of (expensive) paid programming labor
Bomis can devote to
> useful and even essential features like this is less than we would
> all like. It would be ideal if some programmers would step up to
the
> plate and actually help bring some of these
proposals into being.
I
> for one would be absolutely delighted.
>
> Larry
>
> You Wrote:
> >On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:56:47AM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> >> Jan Hidders <hidders(a)win.tue.nl> writes:
> >>
> >> > Because the GFDL allows you to download everything and start
> your own
> >> > server.
> >>
> >> Well the GFDL also wants transparent copy to be easily
available. I
> >> don't consider spidering
wikipedia to be an option open to
the "man
> >> from the street".
> >
> >FWIW I certainly agree with that, and there should certainly be
an
easy
>way to download the complete Wikipedia. So you can also add
my "pretty
>please" :-)
>
>-- Jan Hidders
>
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