[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia teamwork

[Jason Richey]

There is now a tarball of each of the wiki sites that are running as
"Wikipedia".  Go to the homepage http://www.wikipedia.com to find the
link, or go to the downloads directly at
http://www.wikipedia.com/tarballs.  These are just tarballs of the
entire directory that the sites are served from.

Jason

sanger1 at nupedia.com wrote:

> 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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"Jason C. Richey" <jasonr at bomis.com>