On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Ariel T. Glenn <
ariel@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> There's a few other reasons articles get deleted: copyright issues,
> personal identifying data, etc. This makes maintaning the sort of
> mirror you propose problematic, although a similar mirror is here:
>
http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page
>
> The dumps contain only data publically available at the time of the run,
> without deleted data.
>
> The articles aren't permanently deleted of course. The revisions texts
> live on in the database, so a query on toolserver, for example, could be
> used to get at them, but that would need to be for research purposes.
>
> Ariel
>
> Στις 17-05-2012, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 13:30 +0200, ο/η Mike Dupont έγραψε:
>> Hi,
>> I am thinking about how to collect articles deleted based on the "not
>> notable" criteria,
>> is there any way we can extract them from the mysql binlogs? how are
>> these mirrors working? I would be interested in setting up a mirror of
>> deleted data, at least that which is not spam/vandalism based on tags.
>> mike
>>
>> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Ariel T. Glenn <
ariel@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> > We now have three mirror sites, yay! The full list is linked to from
>> >
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/ and is also available at
>> >
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_Wikimedia_project_XML_dumps#Current_Mirrors
>> >
>> > Summarizing, we have:
>> >
>> > C3L (Brazil) with the last 5 good known dumps,
>> > Masaryk University (Czech Republic) with the last 5 known good dumps,
>> > Your.org (USA) with the complete archive of dumps, and
>> >
>> > for the latest version of uploaded media, Your.org with http/ftp/rsync
>> > access.
>> >
>> > Thanks to Carlos, Kevin and Yenya respectively at the above sites for
>> > volunteering space, time and effort to make this happen.
>> >
>> > As people noticed earlier, a series of media tarballs per-project
>> > (excluding commons) is being generated. As soon as the first run of
>> > these is complete we'll announce its location and start generating them
>> > on a semi-regular basis.
>> >
>> > As we've been getting the bugs out of the mirroring setup, it is getting
>> > easier to add new locations. Know anyone interested? Please let us
>> > know; we would love to have them.
>> >
>> > Ariel
>> >
>> >
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