[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia teamwork

[sanger1 at nupedia.com]

Bryce (just realized that I had replied just to you rather than the 
list): I sympathize, but posting on this list frankly isn't going to 
get anything done.  I do only a little work directly on the server; 
Jason's the man who will have to do this, if this or something like 
it is what we'll end up doing, exactly.  What Jason might not know 
(so, I've cc'd him) is how seriously you all take this.  I certainly 
would like to see Wikipedia's content easily useable--it will get a 
lot of new links back to Wikipedia and it will indeed make the 
project more credible, as someone very correctly said.  I have wanted 
this to be done for months, but, well--our programmers are very busy 
with projects that actually make money.  :-/

Larry

You Wrote:
>I think what people are trying to politely say is that you may be in
>violation of your license...
>
>My suggestion to get around this with a minimum of time expended 
would
>be to set up a cron job to tarball the wiki databases once a week.
>
>Login as www-data or nobody or root or whomever
>$ crontab -e
>0 5 * * 0 /usr/local/bin/tarball_wiki  # Weekly Sunday 5am tarball
>
>
>#!/bin/sh
>## tarball_wiki script
>tar cf /tmp/wiki.tar /home/www-data/wiki_db /home/www-data/cgi-
bin/wiki.pl
>gzip /tmp/wiki.tar
>rm -f /home/www-data/html/wiki.tar.gz
>mv /home/www-data/html/wiki.tar.gz /home/www-data/html/wiki-
prev.tar.gz
>mv /tmp/wiki.tar /home/www-data/html/wiki.tar.gz
>
>
>This will keep the current plus previous week's tarball.
>Obviously, you'll have to fiddle the paths to match however your 
system
>is organized.  You might need to add some chmod/chown commands if 
you do
>this as a user other than the web user.
>
>Anyway, IANAL, but I think this little script would get you off the 
hook
>regarding the transparency issue.  
>
>Bryce
>
>On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 sanger1 at nupedia.com wrote:
>> I agree completely as well.  You all must realize, though, that 
the 
>> amount of (expensive) paid programming labor Bomis can devote to 
>> useful and even essential features like this is less than we would 
>> all like.  It would be ideal if some programmers would step up to 
the 
>> plate and actually help bring some of these proposals into being.  
I 
>> for one would be absolutely delighted.
>> 
>> Larry
>> 
>> You Wrote:
>> >On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:56:47AM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
>> >> Jan Hidders <hidders at win.tue.nl> writes:
>> >> 
>> >> > Because the GFDL allows you to download everything and start 
>> your own
>> >> > server.
>> >> 
>> >> Well the GFDL also wants transparent copy to be easily 
available. I
>> >> don't consider spidering wikipedia to be an option open to 
the "man
>> >> from the street".
>> >
>> >FWIW I certainly agree with that, and there should certainly be 
an 
>> easy
>> >way to download the complete Wikipedia. So you can also add 
>> my "pretty
>> >please" :-)
>> >
>> >-- Jan Hidders
>> >
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