Since WikiApiary could be offline indefinitely (T304558), can someone with access to the host dump the database and upload it somewhere like Archive.org? It would be useful for historical purposes.
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Subscribing @MarkAHershberger, he seems to be the one who was maintaining WikiApiary.
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It has been down far longer than I would like. Wikibase.nl has been working on restoring functionality.
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I brought WikiApiary back online this past weekend by setting up Azure hosting under the aegis of the MediaWiki-Stakeholders-Group. We've moved from WMF Cloud hosting since we were probably out-growing it.
In any case, a database dump might be something we make available in the future, but, for now, this task is moot.
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I'm not sure I understand the reason for declining this. The change in hosting doesn't change the usefulness of a data dump that's publicly available.
There's no expectation of this being done immediately of course, but a database dump or XML pages dump would be a great thing to have at some point. In fact, at least one already exists: https://archive.org/details/wiki-wikiapiarycom_w but it's seven years old.
Especially as WikiApiary itself is the index to wiki dumps, I think it definitely makes sense for its own dumps to be made available.
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Sorry, I do now see what you mean. This is specifically about database dumps, which are more of a pain to produce because care has to be taken to not make any private data public. But I was reading it as including XML dumps, which are much easier.
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Indeed. The only dump here is at https://archive.org/details/wiki-wikiapiarycom_w is from 2015. Automatic dumps have probably failed ever since because the wiki has always been quite huge and slow ever since the bots were introduced, so server-side dumps are recommended. The sysadmins can place them on some webserver and tell users, or they can upload the XML dumps directly into an archive.org item. Either way, this has nothing to do with the Internet Archive.