A number of projects were closed/deleted but are still dumped regularly, e.g. https://rm.wiktionary.org (https://dumps.wikimedia.org/rmwiktionary)
Those projects should probably not be dumped anymore.
The difficulty is to have an up to date list of such projects. A good start would be this category: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Approved_proposals_for_closing_wikis or this page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects.
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
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| mark closed wikis as such on the main index.html page for downloads | operations/dumps | master | +2 -0 |
https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=closed.dblist is the listed of closed projects
Why not dump them? They aren't so big that the add any appreciable delay to the runs, afaict. And this way anyone who wants a copy of a closed wiki has a dump that's up to date with the latest MediaWiki version for import.
Most closed wikis are basically empty, I don't see any use for their dump for anyone, up to date or not.
If they are not costly to dump, then that's OK.
I just wish there was an easy way to to flag those mostly useless dumps as *closed wiki*, rather than looking at the hard to reach page that @Peachey88 mentioned.
Where would you want such an indicator to show up? That might be doable with not too much effort.
Some wikis have a "(private data)" in https://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html: a similar "(closed wiki)" label would work.
Change 285187 had a related patch set uploaded (by ArielGlenn):
mark closed wikis as such on the main index.html page for downloads
Change 285187 merged by ArielGlenn:
mark closed wikis as such on the main index.html page for downloads
This will happen for all new dumps of closed wikis going forwards. I did a manual test on one wiki which can be seen marked as 'closed' on the main download page.
I see wikis showing up in the main index page marked as closed, as expected, so closing this task.