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

[emijrp]

The only issues for Wikimedia projects perservation/forking by third
parties are the missing image dumps (which are being created since some
days ago, thanks Ariel) and the usernames/passwords table (not a big
problem in an apocalyptic scenario, where articles and images have top
priority).

We at WikiTeam are uploading wiki dumps to Internet Archive, and recently
some official mirrors of Wikimedia dumps (articles + images) are being
created around the globe (currently in 3 different locations).

I think we are taking great steps in the last year.

2012/5/17 Kim Bruning <kim at bruning.xs4all.nl>

> >
> > 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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