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* [http://download.wikipedia.org/ official backups site] | * [http://download.wikipedia.org/ official backups site] | ||
* http://download.wikimedia.org/archive/ - about a dozen older dumps, including [http://dumps.wikimedia.org/archive/enwiki/20060816/ one from 2006], as well as 2 from [https://dumps.wikimedia.org/archive/2001/ 2001]. | * http://download.wikimedia.org/archive/ - about a dozen older dumps, including [http://dumps.wikimedia.org/archive/enwiki/20060816/ one from 2006], as well as 2 from [https://dumps.wikimedia.org/archive/2001/ 2001]. | ||
* | * {{url|http://noc.wikimedia.org/~tstarling/wikipedia-logs-2001-08-17.7z|old wikipedia backups discovered}} (lost again as of 19:07, 10 July 2016 (EDT)) | ||
** {{url|http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-December/063088.html|announcement on foundation-l}} | |||
** {{url|https://web.archive.org/web/20120306052415/http://grey.colorado.edu/wikipedia_2001/|script for parsing them}} | |||
* Internet Archive results: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=wikipedia%20dumps | * Internet Archive results: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=wikipedia%20dumps |
Revision as of 23:10, 10 July 2016
Wikipedia | |
URL | http://www.wikipedia.org/ |
Status | Online! |
Archiving status | Saved! |
Archiving type | Unknown |
IRC channel | #wikiteam (on hackint) |
Wikipedia is the largest wiki on the planet, with several million articles available in English and several million more in dozens of available languages.
For once, a site that recognizes the importance of third-party backups! They have a main downloads page from which you can get XML dumps from individual wikis (Wikimedia Foundation hosts more than 800 wikis: Wikipedias, Wiktionaries, Wikinews, Wikisources, Wikibooks, Wikiquotes, Wikiversities, Wikispecies, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, Wikidata).
Tools
- WikiTeam script to download Wikipedia dumps from download.wikimedia.org
Backups
As of 19:07, 10 July 2016 (EDT), dumps.wikimedia.org only has about 10 earlier versions of dumps for each wiki, generally going back to around October 2015. They don't seem to be linked, but they are accessible via http://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikiname/ (where wikiname is listed on the index page).
There's an old article dump (2008/03/12) up on The Pirate Bay magnet, from the ArchiveTeam TPB account, although it has no seeders as of 19:07, 10 July 2016 (EDT).
There is no current public backup for images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, which has about 32 million images and other media files uploaded on its services as of 19:07, 10 July 2016 (EDT).
Links:
- official backups site
- http://download.wikimedia.org/archive/ - about a dozen older dumps, including one from 2006, as well as 2 from 2001.
- old wikipedia backups discovered[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb] (lost again as of 19:07, 10 July 2016 (EDT))
- Internet Archive results: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=wikipedia%20dumps
Transferring to IA
Hydriz is currently transferring the dumps of all Wikimedia projects into the Internet Archive. Wikimedia itself has provided resources to me for transferring these dumps to the Internet Archive. Do see the collection here.
Vital signs
Stable, but they seriously use a lot of tactics to get donations.
Offline readers
See also
- Wikimedia Commons
- Wikia
- Wikis
- Nupedia
- GNUPedia
- Citizendium
- WikiTravel - Not a Wikimedia project, but its content was forked to create WMF-hosted rival Wikivoyage.