[WikiEN-l] Accessing Wikipedia

Thu Feb 6 21:42:34 UTC 2003

How much bandwith use winkipedia ? I haaaave the server but probably not the
bandwith.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Moeller" <erik_moeller at gmx.de>
To: <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 9:06 PM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Accessing Wikipedia

> > Erik Moeller wrote:
> >> When there's scheduled downtime, it is usually announced on the
> >> mailing list.  Let us know if you find someone willing to run a
> >> complete read-only mirror, that would help.
>
> > I volunteer.  What do we need to do?
>
> Heh :-) If it's in your network, you probably just need to copy the source
> files and the tables from /var/lib/mysql (or wherever your MySQL databases
> reside) in a nightly cronjob to some other machine that's set up the same
> way as our current one. Since I don't have access to the Wikipedia server,
> you need to ask Brion for details regarding the cvs update scripts and so
> on, but it should all be fairly straightforward. The only difference would
> be that the database is locked on the read-only serevr.
>
> Everyone else can run a mirror by simply importing the database dumps on a
> regular basis, though.
>
> Regards,
>
> Erik
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