[Foundation-l] Long-term archiving of Wikimedia content

[Brian]

The OAI updater is for incremental updates of search indexes using MWSearch.

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:

> On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> > > Mostly I meant the user data (especially the passwords).  The relative
> > value
> > > of them compared to the rest can be shown by anyone who tries to create
> a
> > > fork.
> >
> > In the dumps, these are always done first:
> > <http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20090506/>
>
>
> Pretty much in order of importance (except that I don't know what "Update
> dataset for OAI updater system" means).
>
> I suppose the stub dump is also important as it's not widely replicated and
> contains the author information, but in a month or so the GFDL is going to
> be dropped anyway so that wouldn't be such a huge loss I guess.
>
> In any case, the Library of Alexandria analogy kind of forgets about the
> "no
> original research" policy.  Even if the current versions of all articles
> were lost, it wouldn't be all that horrible.  It might even be a good
> thing.  Consider Citizendium's decision not to go the route of the fork but
> instead to start from scratch.
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