How to fork a wiki Options

[emesee]

Step 1

Sign up for hosting somewhere. You need to have PHP and MySQL installed, at least.

Dreamhost will work nicely, and quite often, you can signup, with a unique domain name for just 10 dollars, for the first year.

There are many other hosts to signup with. It will often run about 5-15+ dollars a month. If you are not getting mega ammounts of traffic, a host somewhere within this range should suffice.

Step 2

Install MediaWiki. This can have a bit of a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, it is not super super difficult. See:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installing_MediaWiki

Step 3

Get the XML dump of the wiki that you wish to fork.

Many can be found at:
http://download.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html

If you want to fork Commons, then see:
http://yousefourabi.com/blog/semantic-web/...ages-with-wikix

If the wiki you wish to fork does not have an XML dump available, then you still could fork the wiki, but it could be a pain. You would have to get the page list at [[Special:Allpages]] and then either export all pages manually at [[Special:Export]] (with a large wiki, this could take a long, long time) or else setup some sort script to do it (find it using Google, if it exists, or write it yourself).

Step 4

Import the dump. See:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Importing_XML_dumps

Appendix

Configure the Wiki

Then of course, configure MediaWiki at sometime in here. You may want to Import [[MediaWiki:common.css]] from the big wiki.

You can enable the use of images from Commons. See:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$...oreignFileRepos

A pretty decent overview of other good to know configurations are at:
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/MediaWiki

You may need to tweak the configuration over time. See:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

The MediaWiki wiki has a lot of information on it, and is organized perhaps pretty reasonably.

[gomi]

I hadn't seen this very old thread. When it popped up, the first thing that came to mind was: "Well, first you take it out for a really nice dinner, maybe buy flowers .....".

[Cock-up-over-conspiracy]

I am not interested in forking the Wikipedia ...


but is anyone here capturing dumps on a regular basis in order that they can analyze all the oversights and page removals that are going on?

[Alison]

... is anyone here capturing dumps on a regular basis in order that they can analyze all the oversights and page removals that are going on?

Why?? 99.9% of them are boring, boring

• "I edited while logged out and people can see where I am!!11!!"
• Personal information on children.
• "For a good time, call Cathie 555-1234 (not her ex - honest!!)"
• Stupid Grawp libel / outtage
• Really nasty pieces of libelous BLP edits.

... in decreasing order of magnitude.

[Cock-up-over-conspiracy]

Why??

Why ... a bit like most cults, the mystique only works if extensive historical revision goes on.

The leaders are able to constantly hide their sins, and incompetence. Newcomers keep coming along and getting sucked in because they know nothing of all the shit in the past and cannot believe it.

People need to see it to believe it.

I want an older revision which has more of the pedophile stuff in it to make a presentation in order to send it to some the funding trusts.

Pedophilia ... pornography ... freaky sex ... nationalism ... cultists ... especially where there is admin involvement. That kind of stuff, e.g. perhaps some of the "deleted from public view" hard core porno images that kid admins still have access to.

I have realised stupidly (it has taken this long but I was not to committed before) that what we need are snapshots going back 6, 12, 18 ... months etc because they are becoming to smart at "disappearing" stuff in order to keep up appearances. And a lot of you guys here are doing too good a job clearing it off. Doing them the favor.

I am sorry. They allow or empowers kids to defend cult followers whose leaders have covered up and done nothing about child sex abuse within their midst ... the conversation has to opened up and discussed more widely.

It is pointless trying to address or converse with the rabble, so I would rather go around the back and discuss with the funders.