On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 9:34 PM, Lunar <lu...@torproject.org> wrote: > Runa A. Sandvik: >> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Lunar <lu...@torproject.org> wrote: >> > One of the concern that was raised by Moritz is export capabilities of >> > Stack Exchange. How likely are we to switch to a self-hosted application >> > if it means losing data that had taken a lot of energy to assemble in >> > the first place? >> >> Who said we will lose data? AskBot supports importing data from Stack >> Exchange (I have not tested it myself, so I don't know how much work >> it requires): http://askbot.org/doc/import-data.html > > Moritz mentioned that we would not be able to migrate user/reputation. > As such Q&A websites have an important social component (karma, badges, > and so on), volunteers who would have invested time and energy to build > a good reputation could be turned away by loosing all their stats > overnight.
We can set karma manually by editing the AskBot database. Doing so would be a bit of a pain if we have a high number of very committed users, though. > Overall, I am not afrad of the import part: AskBot is free software. > It's getting data out of Stack Exchange that I am wondering about. > > Looks like at least most data (except user logins, emails and passwords) > could be retrieved through <http://data.stackexchange.com/>, but it > looks a bit tedious to get a full export. Also, given there's a CAPTCHA, > I am not sure backups could be automated. Yeah, I'll look into it. -- Runa A. Sandvik _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
