Kate wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Tom Hughes <t...@compton.nu> wrote: >> 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. >> >> Tom > > In the maintenance folder of the mediawiki installation, there is a > dumpBackup.php script: > > php maintenance/dumpBackup.php --full >20091117-osmwiki.xml > > This produces an xml dump that excludes all the sensitive information > about user accounts, and also excludes logs (e.g. deletion actions). > This is what Wikimedia does to provide database dumps. > > The importDump.php script in the maintenance folder can be used to put > the content into another wiki. > > I don't think a mirror of the wiki is needed and wouldn't edit on a > copy of the wiki, but suppose a copy would be useful to read and have > if off-line. > But what about the images?
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