On 29/01/12 22:48, MZMcBride wrote:
Hi.
Is there a list of (current) impediments to forking a Wikimedia wiki?
replicating parser,
The parser is publically available. We have no hidden tricks.
available dumps,
Dumps are running quite well currently. That shouldn't be a problem
Image access,
Downloading images is slightly harder. Although the big problem is the huge amount of them (so big size, which translates into needed disk space + bandwidth to download), not in getting the files. If you weren't interested in really forking the images, $wgUseInstantCommons could be used.
replicating user table, etc.
All user data deemed private is not available. Basically password hashes, watchlists and some preferences.