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SketchCow |
I'm GethN7, founder and chief administrator of the All The Tropes wiki, a fork of TV Tropes.org on the Orain wikifarm service. It can be found here: |
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03:59
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SketchCow |
https://allthetropes.orain.org/wiki/Main_Page |
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03:59
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SketchCow |
I am very much interested in seeing our wiki backed up as regularly as possible by your project and heavily endorse your efforts to archive wikis and other bits of web history. |
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03:59
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SketchCow |
I ask this partially because I want to make sure that our wiki content survives in the untimely event our site ever goes down for one reason or another, as I am very interested in making sure a backup exists, but also because I'm a fierce advocate of free content licensed material being made freely available, which was one of the reasons we forked from TV Tropes, which had quite the opposite attitude despite having a free content license. In fact, th |
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03:59
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SketchCow |
If possible, I hope to see our wiki backed up as often as possible (both the content and images data) and am entirely willing to help with that goal. |
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03:59
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SketchCow |
Currently, May and July current revision dumps of our content can be found here: |
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03:59
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SketchCow |
https://static.orain.org/common/dumps/allthetropes/ |
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03:59
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SketchCow |
This is just text (not images), but I hope this helps with your archival efforts, and if I can help further, please do not hesitate to contact me. |
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03:59
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SketchCow |
I recommend speaking with Orain Staff for more help with obtaining archive dumps (both full and current), as well as image data, and if you need better info on how to do this, again, please feel free to ask me if encounter any problems. |
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03:59
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SketchCow |
The staff of Orain would most likely have no objection to assisting your project with providing backups, though they do have issues with not having lots of free space lying around for storing this sort of content, but if your team could help them with that in some way, they should prove quite willing to assist ArchiveTeam with backing up content on all publicly available Orain wikis. |
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03:59
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SketchCow |
I hope this proves useful to your project and look forward to any responses. :) |
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04:14
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SketchCow |
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04:14
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SketchCow |
That make sense? People want to do it? |
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06:13
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Nemo_bis |
I don't remember if we already asked |
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06:13
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Nemo_bis |
Would aslo be interesting to ask how they got data off TvTropes |