[OSM-talk] Offline Dump of the Wiki

[Lester Caine]

Tom Hughes wrote:
> On 17/11/09 10:23, Simone Cortesi wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:17, Stefan de Konink<stefan at konink.de>  wrote:
>>
>>> Can we get a url to wget the nightly backup from this separate physical
>>> location to not disturb the active wiki, but still be able to serve a
>>> wiki that is a day old?
>> Some months ago we were asked by a research institute if we could
>> provide a full copy of the wiki. The board did agree on this being
>> available to the research institute. But the dump has not been made
>> available to them yet.
> 
> Well who did the board ask to undertake this task? They can agree all 
> they like, but unless they ask somebody to do it nothing much is going 
> to happen.
> 
> Probably the best way to do it will be to use the mediawiki dump tools 
> but Grant probably knows more about that than me. We'll need to check 
> that they don't leak any sensitive information, but I assume they won't 
> as wikipedia publish dumps made that way. The raw database definitely 
> does have sensitive information so can't be made available as is.
> 
> I can't for the life of me think what sort of research would require a 
> copy of the wiki though.

If a suitable backup is available, then we can provide mirror sites. The problem 
of cause is that editing needs to be restricted to the main site, but even that 
can be catered for with care ....

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