#wikiteam 2020-08-26,Wed

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07:14 🔗 Lord_Nigh so what's the story with the scots wikipedia mess? is there any plan to archive that or purge the last 8 years from what is archived/mirrored (why) or are we just sort of ignoring it or wait and see or... i dunno.
09:17 🔗 JAA Uh, purge? Why?
09:20 🔗 JAA Lots of dumps on IA: https://archive.org/details/wikimediadownloads?and%5B%5D=Scots&sin=&sort=-publicdate
12:41 🔗 Lord_Nigh JAA, because apparently an american teenager, from the ages of 12-19, produced 20,000 articles in the "scots" language that were not actually in scots, almost as a meme/parody of scots, and hence produced over 1/3 of the entire content of the scots language wikipedia
12:42 🔗 Lord_Nigh and it took 8 years for anyone to notice
12:42 🔗 Lord_Nigh so much of the scots wikipedia is polluted by that stuff that people who speak the legitamate language are talking about deleting it or wiping it
12:43 🔗 JAA Yeah, I'm aware, but why would the archives get purged?
12:43 🔗 JAA Maybe they'll delete the wiki, but the dumps should stay, no?
12:44 🔗 JAA At least that's what happened with other wikis that WMF shut down.
12:45 🔗 JAA But the ones I'm aware of were shut down for inactivity etc., not due to something like this, so no idea.
12:47 🔗 Lord_Nigh i don't know. if you think everything is ok as is, then I guess that's fine
12:49 🔗 JAA The dumps are tiny, I'll just throw them into AB to be safe. https://dumps.wikimedia.org/scowiki/20200820/
12:50 🔗 JAA And https://dumps.wikimedia.org/scowiki/20200801/ (history wasn't dumped on the 20th)
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18:00 🔗 Ryz Heya, I randomly found http://hypnosys.ru/ from the https://stoicstudio.com/forum/forum.php AB job that's running; has this been archived here?
18:01 🔗 Ryz ...I can't seem to find the MediaWiki version though...
18:02 🔗 JAA http://hypnosys.ru/index.php/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F:%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8F
18:03 🔗 JAA Tip: Add a uselang=en parameter to the URL to get much of the general interface in English.
18:04 🔗 JAA Can't find it on WikiApiary or IA, so probably not covered before.
18:05 🔗 Ryz I can also type the names of the special pages in English, non-GUI style and it'll redirect me to their language counterpart oo;
18:07 🔗 JAA Yeah, or that. Special:Version works fine as well.
19:25 🔗 Nemo_bis canonical namespaces for the win
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23:31 🔗 JAA Could someone redump https://archive.org/details/wiki-wikidystifycom please? Going down sometime next month. It doesn't look like there were many edits (if any) after the last dump, but it's very small, so another dump can't hurt.

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