first version of the Script is ready , it gets the versions, puts them in a zip and puts that on archive.org https://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/pywikipediabot/blob/master/export_deleted.py
here is an example output : http://archive.org/details/wikipedia-delete-2012-05 http://ia601203.us.archive.org/24/items/wikipedia-delete-2012-05/archive2012-05-28T21:34:02.302183.zip I will cron this, and it should give a start of saving deleted data. Articles will be exported once a day, even if they they were exported yesterday as long as they are in one of the categories. mike On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Mike Dupont <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks! and run that 1 time per day, they dont get deleted that quickly. > mike > > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 9:11 PM, emijrp <[email protected]> wrote: >> Create a script that makes a request to Special:Export using this category >> as feed >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Candidates_for_speedy_deletion >> >> More info https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Parameters_to_Special:Export >> >> >> 2012/5/21 Mike Dupont <[email protected]> >>> >>> Well I whould be happy for items like this : >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Db-a7 >>> would it be possible to extract them easily? >>> mike >>> >>> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Ariel T. Glenn <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > There's a few other reasons articles get deleted: copyright issues, >>> > personal identifying data, etc. This makes maintaning the sort of >>> > mirror you propose problematic, although a similar mirror is here: >>> > http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page >>> > >>> > The dumps contain only data publically available at the time of the run, >>> > without deleted data. >>> > >>> > The articles aren't permanently deleted of course. The revisions texts >>> > live on in the database, so a query on toolserver, for example, could be >>> > used to get at them, but that would need to be for research purposes. >>> > >>> > Ariel >>> > >>> > Στις 17-05-2012, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 13:30 +0200, ο/η Mike Dupont έγραψε: >>> >> Hi, >>> >> I am thinking about how to collect articles deleted based on the "not >>> >> notable" criteria, >>> >> is there any way we can extract them from the mysql binlogs? how are >>> >> these mirrors working? I would be interested in setting up a mirror of >>> >> deleted data, at least that which is not spam/vandalism based on tags. >>> >> mike >>> >> >>> >> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Ariel T. Glenn <[email protected]> >>> >> wrote: >>> >> > We now have three mirror sites, yay! The full list is linked to from >>> >> > http://dumps.wikimedia.org/ and is also available at >>> >> > >>> >> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_Wikimedia_project_XML_dumps#Current_Mirrors >>> >> > >>> >> > Summarizing, we have: >>> >> > >>> >> > C3L (Brazil) with the last 5 good known dumps, >>> >> > Masaryk University (Czech Republic) with the last 5 known good dumps, >>> >> > Your.org (USA) with the complete archive of dumps, and >>> >> > >>> >> > for the latest version of uploaded media, Your.org with >>> >> > http/ftp/rsync >>> >> > access. >>> >> > >>> >> > Thanks to Carlos, Kevin and Yenya respectively at the above sites for >>> >> > volunteering space, time and effort to make this happen. >>> >> > >>> >> > As people noticed earlier, a series of media tarballs per-project >>> >> > (excluding commons) is being generated. As soon as the first run of >>> >> > these is complete we'll announce its location and start generating >>> >> > them >>> >> > on a semi-regular basis. >>> >> > >>> >> > As we've been getting the bugs out of the mirroring setup, it is >>> >> > getting >>> >> > easier to add new locations. Know anyone interested? Please let us >>> >> > know; we would love to have them. >>> >> > >>> >> > Ariel >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > _______________________________________________ >>> >> > Wikitech-l mailing list >>> >> > [email protected] >>> >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Wikitech-l mailing list >>> > [email protected] >>> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> James Michael DuPont >>> Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org >>> Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org >>> Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikitech-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada. E-mail: emijrp AT gmail DOT com >> Pre-doctoral student at the University of Cádiz (Spain) >> Projects: AVBOT | StatMediaWiki | WikiEvidens | WikiPapers | WikiTeam >> Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/emijrp/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Xmldatadumps-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/xmldatadumps-l >> > > > > -- > James Michael DuPont > Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org > Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org > Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3 -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
