Topic: Mirroring the Wiki?

[m]

Could the forum operaters enable us to download or sync the entire Wiki?  Having a local copy of the documentation would be really helpful.
Thanks,
Michael

[cactus]

Could the forum operaters enable us to download or sync the entire Wiki?  Having a local copy of the documentation would be really helpful.
Thanks,
Michael

Please raise this as a bug in the bugtracker under the website category, there is a Mediawiki category IIRC.

[David Harper]

I have used HTTrack to mirror websites previously -- it works quite well.

[cactus]

I have used HTTrack to mirror websites previously -- it works quite well.

You are not encouraged to do so on the contribs.org domain. If you want to mirror for some purpose please contact the administrator.

[gzartman]

My guess is that you would not be able to mirror the contribs.org wiki because it isn't just a collection of html (or similar) pages sitting in an www dir.  Most of the content is stored in a mysql dbase an is generated on the fly when a person selects a given page. 

[pfloor]

My guess is that you would not be able to mirror the contribs.org wiki because it isn't just a collection of html (or similar) pages sitting in an www dir.  Most of the content is stored in a mysql dbase an is generated on the fly when a person selects a given page.

Most likely correct and there are also bandwidth limitations to prevent you from doing so even if it were possible.

[m]

I have never had in mind to mirror plain html pages. That would  be an easy job, but also bad behaving. I thought of rsync access e.g. to the daily backup of the DB dump file and the uploaded files directory. So those  that rely on access to the documentation have a chance to keep an up to date version local in their mediawiki. And I am sure that a lot of those people would put their mirror online in case of a long outage, if you ask them for it. I would. Even a slow access due to limited bandwidth is better than having nothing at all.

[cactus]

I have never had in mind to mirror plain html pages. That would  be an easy job, but also bad behaving. I thought of rsync access e.g. to the daily backup of the DB dump file and the uploaded files directory. So those  that rely on access to the documentation have a chance to keep an up to date version local in their mediawiki. And I am sure that a lot of those people would put their mirror online in case of a long outage, if you ask them for it. I would. Even a slow access due to limited bandwidth is better than having nothing at all.

I suggest you raise a bug for it, perhaps the admins are willing to create a dump on a regular basis or have even better ways.

[Graham]

MySQL Master / Slave works nicely

[cactus]

MySQL Master / Slave works nicely

I am not so sure that would be the setup contribs.org preffers.