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The following runs by cron each Saturday: | The following runs by cron each Saturday: | ||
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cd /home/apropos/appropedia.org/ | cd /home/apropos/appropedia.org/approbackups | ||
/usr/local/php5/bin/php maintenance/dumpBackup.php --current | gzip > currentdump.xml.gz | /usr/local/php5/bin/php ../maintenance/dumpBackup.php --current | gzip > currentdump.xml.gz | ||
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Revision as of 02:49, 30 October 2009
The latest dump of Appropedia - the text of all pages on the site, in one big XML file - is found here. (It's about 11.3 MB This is the newest revision of each page (not the entire history).
New dumps are made weekly. The date of the latest dump can be determined from... (the datestamp on the file after downloading, or is that the time you downloaded? or does it depend on your OS?)
The dump can be used:
- By the Pywikipedia bot, used by some editors. (See Category:Appropedia bots.)
- For offline browsing of Appropedia (if you can help with those instructions, please do).
- To export the data to another database
- As a snapshot backup (just in case...)
Making the dump
For the reference of Appropedia tech people, making the dump involves these steps (to be filled in): The following runs by cron each Saturday:
cd /home/apropos/appropedia.org/approbackups /usr/local/php5/bin/php ../maintenance/dumpBackup.php --current | gzip > currentdump.xml.gz
- see meta:MediaWiki#Database dump for more ideas.