[OSM-talk] Wiki Offline Copy?

[Grant Slater]

Alexander Menk wrote:
> Hi!
>
> maybe a good intermediate solution would be to provide zipped "wget -r" 
> copies of the wiki? Of course not everybody shall do "wget -r 
> wiki.openstreetmap.org" because this would cause to much load, but I 
> could offer some webspace and do weekly snapshots or s.th. like this?
>   

Dude! No no no.
~23100 pages x multiple page views x all history x special page links = 
big scary number. Do not do it.

Bots are causing most of the load problems on the wiki, do not start 
another one.

> Unfortunately wget is excluded by robots.txt, that's why I ask before I 
> do so..
>   

Yes, wget is blocked for good reason. Wikipedia blocks it too.

The server which runs the wiki will be upgraded soon. If the community 
then agrees, we could setup a weekly data dump. Something like: 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps

/ Grant