Time |
Nickname |
Message |
11:12
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Nemo_bis |
Sigh, EditThis is so full of spam. 8k pages each with thousands revisions of hundreds KB just at the title [[index.php]]... you make the sum. |
11:22
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Dud1 |
So the wiki I'm backing up is nearly 600mb and only gotten through ~6/7k pages, there are about 372 thousand titles left to do...what size is it going to be in the end? |
11:23
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Nemo_bis |
Dud1: the fi.runescape wikia? |
11:24
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Dud1 |
Yeah |
11:24
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Nemo_bis |
probably several GB |
11:24
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Nemo_bis |
check the wikia dumps on archive.org to see if there's a previous dump of that wiki, I thought I had linked you one? |
11:28
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Dud1 |
The only rswiki on archive is https://archive.org/details/wiki-wikirshunhu and that is a different one. |
11:39
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Nemo_bis |
no, you have to check wikia dumps |
11:40
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Nemo_bis |
like https://archive.org/download/wikia_dump_20121204/r.zip/ |
11:41
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Nemo_bis |
http://archive.org/download/wikia_dump_20121204/f.zip/f%2Ffi%2Ffirunescape%2Fpages_full.xml.gz is 20 MB gzipped |
11:41
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Nemo_bis |
if you're downloading the English one it was 3 GB compressed |
11:41
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Nemo_bis |
so, probably less than 30 GB uncompressed |
11:57
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Dud1 |
I am sorry, but I'm confused now. Should I continue the way I was going or what? |
12:10
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Nemo_bis |
Dud1: sure, unless you lack disk space |
12:11
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Nemo_bis |
but if you want to dump the finnish one then you have to use the api to the finnish one :) |
12:13
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Dud1 |
I have 124gb so I'll keep going, I cna delete stuff if needed. I'll keep with the english one first then try the rest (never noticed that site had other languages XD) |
12:14
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Dud1 |
Thanks :) |
12:16
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Nemo_bis |
then use 7z a -mx9 to compress it, much better for full dumps |
14:04
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Nemo_bis |
Out of few dozens Wikia wikis which also have an image dump, there is buytwitterfollowers_images.tar. Go figure. |