Pine W, 24/03/20 21:41:
> Forwarding.
Thanks.
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 3:55 PM Mark Graham<mark(a)archive.org> wrote:
>> On top of our efforts to add links to citations, in Wikipedia articles, to digital versions of referenced book available from archive.org (150K books from 10 Wikipedia language editions and counting…)
>>
>> The Internet Archive just launched a National Emergency Library.
The announcement is at:
<http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-…>
In short, now people can borrow 10 books instead of 5 and there seem to
be no limits on how many people can borrow a book at the same time. The
waitlists nearly vanished over the course of the last few days.
Federico
[Again in the saga of me trying to query the revision and logging tables
against comment text and usernames...]
Am I dreaming or is the timeout on DB queries today something like 2
minutes? Is it a temporary measure? Is a query killer particularly
aggressive due to some overload? Should we expect this to last?
This query works:
MariaDB [enwiki_p]> select count(*) from revision where rev_id >
950000000 AND rev_comment_id = 1334144;
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
| 174 |
+----------+
1 row in set (1 min 57.35 sec)
A slightly bigger one times out pretty quick:
MariaDB [enwiki_p]> select count(*) from revision where rev_id >
930000000 AND rev_comment_id = 1334144;
ERROR 2013 (HY000): Lost connection to MySQL server during query
Federico
Nichole Saad, 03/12/18 22:06:
> The Wikimedia Education team wants to introduce a new Wikimedia
> and Education Slack
This is very sad. It's countereducational and self-defeating to use
proprietary software for a program which is supposed to teach free
knowledge.
Federico
Not sure if it already passed here, but I just noticed this recording of
a CSPAN segment on Wikipedia: «Ryan McGrady, from Wiki Education, talked
about how Wikipedia has changed since it was founded in 2001. As the
Scholars and Scientists Program Manager, he works with academics to
improve site content. This interview was recorded at the annual American
Historical Association meeting in New York City.»
https://archive.org/details/CSPAN3_20200301_234000_Wikipedia_and_Historians…
It's also available from the CSPAN website if you enable cookies and
proprietary JavaScript:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?467687-4/wikipedia-historians
Federico
Pine W, 24/03/20 21:41:
> Forwarding.
Thanks.
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 3:55 PM Mark Graham<mark(a)archive.org> wrote:
>> On top of our efforts to add links to citations, in Wikipedia articles, to digital versions of referenced book available from archive.org (150K books from 10 Wikipedia language editions and counting…)
>>
>> The Internet Archive just launched a National Emergency Library.
The announcement is at:
<http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-…>
In short, now people can borrow 10 books instead of 5 and there seem to
be no limits on how many people can borrow a book at the same time. The
waitlists nearly vanished over the course of the last few days.
Federico
Fluffy Cat, 04/05/20 10:40:
> Kiwix was what I tried aswell but it has a 37 GB download which I was
> trying to avoid.
Have you tried wikipedia_en_all_mini_2020-04.zim, which is only 11 GB,
less than the latest dump?
The most suitable way to save on size depends on what your purposes and
resources are. For instance, we used to have lighter downloads without
the index, which saved bandwidth, but eventually required the same
amount of disk space and considerably more CPU usage (at least initially).
Federico
Fluffy Cat, 04/05/20 17:27:
> I believe the 37 GB English Wiki contains all articles without images,
> which is what I am looking for. So, it might take a few months but I shall
> probably download that one, through Kiwix. Meanwhile, Wikitaxi should be
> fine.
If it takes you months to download it, I'm sure we can find someone to
mail you a memory card with the dump on it. I'm happy to do it myself.
Federico
Kerry Raymond, 04/12/19 08:52:
> I think if we want to turn around academic perception, we need to:
>
> 1. make academics welcome on Wikipedia (apart from the usual conflict of interests)
Yes, but I would argue the easiest and most impactful way for academics
to help Wikipedia is to release their works with a free license. It's
gratis and only takes a few minutes with proper tools:
https://dissem.in/https://blog.okfn.org/2017/10/26/how-wikimedia-helped-authors-make-over-300…
In an ideal world the two things are not incompatible or even in
competition, but in practice you're likely to have limited attention and
time from an academic so you probably have to prioritise.
Federico