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Contribs.org Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: m on January 15, 2009, 10:40:51 PM
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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
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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 (http://bugs.contribs.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=contribs.org%20web%20site), there is a Mediawiki category IIRC.
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I have used HTTrack (http://www.httrack.com/) to mirror websites previously -- it works quite well.
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I have used HTTrack (http://www.httrack.com/) 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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MySQL Master / Slave works nicely
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MySQL Master / Slave works nicely
I am not so sure that would be the setup contribs.org preffers.