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@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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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@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@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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Bryce Harrington wrote:
I think what people are trying to politely say is that you may be in violation of your license...
Gosh, I hope no one thinks that. This is the first time this issue has come up. I was on vacation last week. I'll see to it that this gets done immediately.
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