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

[John Vandenberg]

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:11 PM, John <phoenixoverride at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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

How would we regain control of our existing usernames in the event
that the user database was lost in the move?

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John Vandenberg