Alexander Menk wrote: > Hi! > > maybe a good intermediate solution would be to provide zipped "wget -r" > copies of the wiki? Of course not everybody shall do "wget -r > wiki.openstreetmap.org" because this would cause to much load, but I > could offer some webspace and do weekly snapshots or s.th. like this? >
Dude! No no no. ~23100 pages x multiple page views x all history x special page links = big scary number. Do not do it. Bots are causing most of the load problems on the wiki, do not start another one. > Unfortunately wget is excluded by robots.txt, that's why I ask before I > do so.. > Yes, wget is blocked for good reason. Wikipedia blocks it too. The server which runs the wiki will be upgraded soon. If the community then agrees, we could setup a weekly data dump. Something like: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps / Grant _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
