Talk:Alive... OR ARE THEY
Has anyone attempted to restore a running copy of wikipedia from the dumps? If so do the dumps provide enough data that, in the event of a catastrophic data failure, wikipedia could be brought back up using just the backups?--Adewale 08:42, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
- That's a very good question. The problem is that the dumps are now insanely huge. I don't know how many people would even have the capacity to unpack them. --Jscott 15:45, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
- This: http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/#1 suggests that DBpedia and FreeBase are attempting to maintain their own structured versions of the wikipedia dataset. Theoretically, if Amazon keeps their public dataset up to date, then it is possible to restore wikipedia from that.
- Even worse, there is no real backup of the image data. According to their backup procedures[1] they only manually rsync them to another remote host sometimes. They already lost some images because of a software bug that they could not restore[2]. Maybe there is a possibility to (slowly) download all images (they provide a dump of the database table that contains all the image metadata) and safe them. As the text-only dump of wikipedia is already > 2 TB without compression, the image size must be HUGE. --Soult 10:57, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
- Just calculated the total size: All images (without meta-data) are about 2604 GB (2.54 TB) in size (as of 24 January, 2009) without counting deleted or replaced images. --Soult 23:40, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
- All the images in Wikimedia Commons (7 millions) are about 6TB. Emijrp 23:12, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
- Uh, well I know I use WikiTaxi regularly to read articles from the dumps. It works quite well. As for how easy it'd be to restore the site from the dumps rather than just read from them, I don't know. But I know the information is there and there's even tools already that read it. --Qwerty0 19:21, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
Wikimedia Commons monthly uploads
date sum(img_size) 2003-1 1360188 2004-10 637349207 2004-11 726517177 2004-12 1503501023 2004-9 188850959 2005-1 1952816194 2005-10 17185495206 2005-11 9950998969 2005-12 11430418722 2005-2 3118680401 2005-3 3820401370 2005-4 5476827971 2005-5 10998180401 2005-6 7160629133 2005-7 9206024659 2005-8 12591218859 2005-9 14060418086 2006-1 15433548270 2006-10 33574470896 2006-11 34231957288 2006-12 30607951770 2006-2 14952310277 2006-3 19415486302 2006-4 23041609453 2006-5 29487911752 2006-6 29856352192 2006-7 32257412994 2006-8 50940607926 2006-9 37624697336 2007-1 40654722866 2007-10 89872715966 2007-11 81975793043 2007-12 75515001911 2007-2 39452895714 2007-3 53706627561 2007-4 72917771224 2007-5 72944518827 2007-6 63504951958 2007-7 76230887667 2007-8 91290158697 2007-9 100120203171 2008-1 84582810181 2008-10 122360827827 2008-11 116290099578 2008-12 126446332364 2008-2 77416420840 2008-3 89120317630 2008-4 98180062150 2008-5 117840970706 2008-6 100352888576 2008-7 128266650486 2008-8 130452484462 2008-9 120247362867 2009-1 127226957021 2009-10 345591510325 2009-11 197991117397 2009-12 228003186895 2009-2 125819024255 2009-3 273597778760 2009-4 212175602700 2009-5 191651496603 2009-6 195998789357 2009-7 241366758346 2009-8 262927838267 2009-9 184963508476 2010-1 226919138307 2010-2 191615007774 2010-3 216425793739 2010-4 312177184245 2010-5 312240110181 2010-6 283374261868 2010-7 362175217639 2010-8 172072631498
In bytes. In July 2010 were uploaded 362 GB. Emijrp 23:16, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Add a section to the article that suggest workarounds
Easiest (to save content) is to submit to multiple websites. My personal favorites for typical files I upload are Ovi Share (by Nokia, unlimited diskspace for quite a wide variety of files but no easy mass download), Scribd, docstoc, Slideshare and Box.net (from which I can download files as a zip file). --Jaakkoh 04:39, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
Wasn't sure where to post this, but what about FriendFeed, given that they're in the process of being acquired by Facebook, and people are talking about leaving and taking their content with them/deleting accounts?
TysonKey 17:49, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
whitehouse.gov
Perhaps some mention should be made that the entity which owns this owes hundreds of *trillions* of dollars with no clear plan or schedule to repay this money. As a house in a bad neighbourhood with a world-leading quantity of foreclosures, it's just a matter of time before Commie China Inc. calls in the loans and the entire house of cards collapses. --Carlb 18:24, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
Uncyclopedia and various former Wikia
Quite a few of the Uncyclopedia individual-language Wikipedia parodies currently are Wikia and all but two of the rest have long been downloadable on download.uncyc.org - but there are two major ones missing (because they're hosted as independents): absurdopedia.org and uncyclopedia.kr (Russian and Korean, respectively). Odds are that there are backups of both from before they were moved independent, but these will be badly out of date. No idea whether the new hosts of these have any backups available for download.
The same pattern likely also holds for a long list of wikis which have left Wikia due to ad-heavy forced reskins of that site in 2008 and again in 2010. http://awa.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Moved_wikis and http://complaintwiki.org were intended as consumer-complaint sites about Wikia, but de-facto should be being read as lists of MediaWiki installations, newly independent in hosting, which may or may not have downloadable backups.
Might be best to assume that, just because Wikia (or another wiki farm) left the old wiki open and abandoned since 2008, that there's anything in the Wikia backups other than outdated content and vandalism once the community has established itself independently elsewhere. Wikia's infamous for keeping old wikis open after the community leaves and Wikia staff have been seen removing links to the new wiki on numerous occasions.
Annoyingly, if some automated process on the old site is generating periodic backups of old data, the timestamp will appear current when the underlying data is three years outdated. --Carlb 18:24, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
Is it really doing 'ok' ? Or, could it really all come crumbling down?
- WHAT IF IT'S NOT ?
- It would be a monumental (and likely impossible task)
- Most likely there would be ample opportunity and time given for users to grab their own data
- What about the if not case, and of those users who might not or could not?
- [hxxp://youtu.be/aY3rokHZgd0 Facebook is Dying, New Class Action Lawsuit Takes Aim]
I think most Facebook data is user-private and cannot be grabbed. Zeronet (talk) 09:12, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
I am not sure if adding these is appropriate.
Youku - Chinese clone of YouTube Tieba - Chinese clone of Reddit Weibo - Chinese clone of Twitter Zhihu - Chinese clone of Quora niconico - Japan video site with "danmaku" (instant commentary system) AcFun - Chinese clone of niconico bilibili - Chinese clone of AcFun Douban - Chinese equivalent of IMDb / ISBNdb, and have many other features bangumi.tv - equivalent of Douban, focus on Japanese popular culture xiami.com - music listening and downloading Neteast Music - music listening and downloading RuTracker - torrent site
Zeronet (talk) 19:33, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
Updating website information
-Delicious is now https://del.icio.us/ and is down until July 24th, according to their page
-Forrst is gone
-Freeware Files is dead
-Invisionfree is dead
-[[3]] redirects to [[4]]
-[[5]] is still operational
Putting this here before changing anything in case anyone else has more information about these matters --Coloradohusky (talk) 03:09, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
Archive info on Kiwi Farms
I feel like it should be mentioned that the owner, Joshua Moon (Null), has stated multiple times that his plan for the site is to release all of it, stripped of user information, via a torrent and that users are free to do as they please with it. I just want this to be noted somewhere as I believe it is important to this article.