[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia sites not easy to archive (Was Re: Knol is closing tomorrow )

[John]

I know from experience that a wiki can be re-built from any one of the
dumps that are provided, (pages-meta-current) for example contains
everything needed to reboot a site except its user database
(names/passwords ect). see
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Moving_a_wiki

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Kim Bruning <kim at bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote:

> >
> > We at Archive Team are attempting to download all the 700,000 Knols.[3]
> For
> > the sake of history. Join us, #archiveteam EFNET.
> >
>
> I did some followup. I'm not sure I can help out with Knol
> anymore, but I discovered that AT is having some trouble
> making good archives of wikimedia sites.
>
> Theoretically, wikipedia et al SHOULD be easy to
> reconstitute, right?  That's why we're using CC licenses
> and all. Else if we drop the ball, WP will be gone.
> This seems like a priority to me!
>
> The main problem seems to be obtaining commons images:
> http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Wikiteam
>
> So at the very least, we don't appear to have very good
> documentation. Who could best help Archive Team out? Has
> anyone done/written documentation on completely restoring 1
> or more wikimedia wikis from 'public backup' [1]?
>
> What can we do to help them?
>
> sincerely,
>        Kim Bruning
>
> [1] "Real Men don't make backups. They upload it via ftp and
> let the world mirror it." - Linus Torvalds
>
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