I know from experience that a wiki can be re-built from any one of the dumps that are provided, (pages-meta-current) for example contains everything needed to reboot a site except its user database (names/passwords ect). see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Moving_a_wiki
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Kim Bruning <k...@bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote: > > > > We at Archive Team are attempting to download all the 700,000 Knols.[3] > For > > the sake of history. Join us, #archiveteam EFNET. > > > > I did some followup. I'm not sure I can help out with Knol > anymore, but I discovered that AT is having some trouble > making good archives of wikimedia sites. > > Theoretically, wikipedia et al SHOULD be easy to > reconstitute, right? That's why we're using CC licenses > and all. Else if we drop the ball, WP will be gone. > This seems like a priority to me! > > The main problem seems to be obtaining commons images: > http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Wikiteam > > So at the very least, we don't appear to have very good > documentation. Who could best help Archive Team out? Has > anyone done/written documentation on completely restoring 1 > or more wikimedia wikis from 'public backup' [1]? > > What can we do to help them? > > sincerely, > Kim Bruning > > [1] "Real Men don't make backups. They upload it via ftp and > let the world mirror it." - Linus Torvalds > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l