On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Tom Ritter <t...@ritter.vg> wrote: > On Jun 17, 2013 5:41 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. >> >> 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. > > Did they stop doing the database dumps?
Looks like they still have it: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/introducing-stack-exchange-data-explorer/ -- Runa A. Sandvik _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
