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Title: Mirroring the Wiki?
Post by: m on January 15, 2009, 10:40:51 PM
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
Title: Re: Mirroring the Wiki?
Post by: cactus on January 15, 2009, 10:53:59 PM
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.
Title: Re: Mirroring the Wiki?
Post by: David Harper on January 16, 2009, 05:14:10 AM
I have used HTTrack (http://www.httrack.com/) to mirror websites previously -- it works quite well.
Title: Re: Mirroring the Wiki?
Post by: cactus on January 16, 2009, 09:29:27 AM
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.
Title: Re: Mirroring the Wiki?
Post by: gzartman on January 16, 2009, 04:28:09 PM
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. 
Title: Re: Mirroring the Wiki?
Post by: pfloor on January 16, 2009, 04:32:44 PM
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.
Title: Re: Mirroring the Wiki?
Post by: m on January 16, 2009, 10:38:26 PM
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.
Title: Re: Mirroring the Wiki?
Post by: cactus on January 16, 2009, 11:06:33 PM
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.
Title: Re: Mirroring the Wiki?
Post by: Graham on January 16, 2009, 11:27:47 PM
MySQL Master / Slave works nicely
Title: Re: Mirroring the Wiki?
Post by: cactus on January 16, 2009, 11:31:37 PM
MySQL Master / Slave works nicely
I am not so sure that would be the setup contribs.org preffers.