EditThis

EditThis
A screen shot of the EditThis.info home page taken on 27 May 2012
URL	http://editthis.info
Status	Online!
Archiving status	Partially saved in 2014
Archiving type	Unknown
IRC channel	#wikiteam (on hackint)

EditThis is a wikifarm. According to our estimates, there are over 1,300 wikis. There is a 2014 backup for most of them.

This farm is quite hard to archive, because of

• old software (MediaWiki 1.15) with several weirdnesses, both at application and webserver level (like directory structure, URL rewrites, l10n in MediaWiki namespace);
• slow servers (even after they fixed their robots.txt);
• very strict captcha and throttling (with unhelpful status codes);
• number of wikis taken over by spam since 2012 or earlier.

The owner clearly has not had time to manage it properly for several years now.

Best results to complete a download with launcher.py and dumpgenerator.py have been reached with the following:

• add --exnamespaces=8,9
• use API and a --delay=60, wait 120 s between each wiki.

If you lower the delay too much, or forget to sleep between some kinds of requests, you can easily enter a loop of endless 503 errors and never get out of it (each request, failed or not, counts for the throttle).

External links

• http://editthis.info^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]}