Re: [Foundation-l] Archiving wikis

2011-04-18 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
emijrp, 18/04/2011 20:57: > Hi Nemo. It is a great idea, but it needs a lot of resources (space > and bandwidth). > > By the way, MediaWiki includes dumpBackup.php to make wiki backups. > But people do not use it, and do not publish backups. If we make an > extension or feature (disabled by deault)

Re: [Foundation-l] Archiving wikis

2011-04-18 Thread emijrp
Hi Nemo. It is a great idea, but it needs a lot of resources (space and bandwidth). By the way, MediaWiki includes dumpBackup.php to make wiki backups. But people do not use it, and do not publish backups. If we make an extension or feature (disabled by deault), it is the same problem. Only a few

Re: [Foundation-l] Archiving wikis

2011-04-14 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
emijrp, 14/04/2011 12:52: > We know that websites are fragile and that broken links are common. > Wikimedia (and other communities like Wikia) publish dumps of their wikis, > but, that is not common. Most wiki communities don't publish any backups > [...] Would it make sense to add a feature to

[Foundation-l] Archiving wikis

2011-04-14 Thread emijrp
Hi all; We know that websites are fragile and that broken links are common. Wikimedia (and other communities like Wikia) publish dumps of their wikis, but, that is not common. Most wiki communities don't publish any backups, so their users can't do anything when a disaster occurs (data loss, attac