Erik Zachte wrote:
Thanks Brion, very neat.
One more question: it would be nice if each project also wrote a line
to a global log that is publicly accessable. People could monitor this
to detect that a dump has started and how much progress has been made.
E.g. at
http://download.wikimedia.org/dumpprogress.txt
2005-Sep-03 12:18:30 special commons / completed normally
2005-Sep-03 12:27:10 special sources / completed normally
2005-Sep-03 12:39:12 wikiquote ab / completed normally
2005-Sep-03 12:39:23 wikiquote ac / completed normally
2005-Sep-03 12:40:23 wikiquote ae
A simple grep -r statement should be enough to get these lines of every
backup.log file:
sourceswiki 2005-09-03T00:38:40+0000 OK: Starting backup of sourceswiki
sourceswiki 2005-09-03T08:43:59+0000 SUCCESS: done.
see
http://download.wikimedia.org/special/sources/backup.log
I'm sure somebody will provide an RSS-feed, OAI-Repository,
dumplog2wiki-bot or what's requested if you just provide the simple log.
Greetings,
Jakob