https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60220

--- Comment #31 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Silke Meyer (WMDE) from comment #28)
> * We questioned the importance of keeping the wiki again if no one has the
> resources to move it somewhere.
> * If no one does, we'll keep a backup dump for later ressurrection.

Someone should just write and run a bot to transwiki (export and import, maybe)
all the content from wiki.toolserver.org to Meta-Wiki. Then we can go through
it on Meta-Wiki at a leisurely pace. If we wait for the wiki to only be
available as an SQL dump, it will be significantly more annoying and painful to
retrieve the contents and its history.

I might be able to help write such a bot if it's not trivial. I assume some of
the larger MediaWiki bot code libraries such as pywikibot have built-in
functions to do imports and exports, but even doing it with requests to the
MediaWiki API directly shouldn't be too difficult.

As I recall, a potential blocker here might be that user auth seemed to have
broken for the wiki at some point for scripts. I ran a script under my main
account for years, but at some point it developed an issue where it always had
trouble logging in, so it would just update the wiki page as an IP address (cf.
<https://wiki.toolserver.org/history/Wiki_server_assignments>). I assumed it
was something to do with the shared auth system in place there.

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