wiki dumps should be made
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lsb |
In Progress
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
| Mandriva |
In Progress
|
Medium
|
|||
Bug Description
Given the importance of the LSB Wiki now, it was suggested the wiki should be
dumped. This would also be the only feasible means to do a "mirror" - loading
from a dump.
Some notes pasted from wikimedia.org:
===
Database dump
For downloadable dumps of Wikipedia's article database, see Wikipedia:Database
download. For a description of the database format and fields, see database
layout.
To create your own dump of a local MediaWiki site, you can use the
dumpBackup.php script found in the maintenance directory of your MediaWiki
installation tree.
An example invocation to a full backup might look like:
php maintenance/
Command line options for dumpBackup.php are explained by running it with no
parameters, i.e.
php maintenance/
===
Note that there may be stuff that isn't particularly public in the overall
wiki, so some thought ought to be given to whether the whole site should be
archived in version control by way of dumps... on the other hand, a
dump/prune/restore might be a way to clean out some of the content that's no
longer wanted.
I've read that the dump/restore through mediawiki is quite slow and some people
prefer to dump the mysql database directly....
| tags: | added: infra web |
| Changed in mandriva: | |
| importance: | Unknown → Medium |
| status: | Unknown → In Progress |
