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[[Consumerium:XML dump]] if you seek the latest XML dump of this wiki. | |||
[[Consumerium]] must be able to do an '''[[XML]] dump''' of the [[Content Wiki]] and [[Opinion Wiki]] at any time, if the material in them is [[GFDL]]: | [[Consumerium]] must be able to do an '''[[XML]] dump''' of the [[Content Wiki]] and [[Opinion Wiki]] at any time, if the material in them is [[GFDL]]: | ||
The terms of the [[GFDL]] require certain access to [[source text]]. Any element of the [[GFDL text corpus]] must remain available in source form to anyone, and no page in it can be distributed without the URL of a source form that can be instantly retrieved by ''anyone''. This includes those "banned" by the [[sysop power structure]]. Mediawiki provides this with "edit page" or "view source" links on every page | The terms of the [[GFDL]] require certain access to [[source text]]. Any element of the [[GFDL text corpus]] must remain available in source form to anyone, and no page in it can be distributed without the URL of a source form that can be instantly retrieved by ''anyone''. This includes those "banned" by the [[sysop power structure]]. Mediawiki provides this with the [[Special:Export]] facility in recent versions, and for unblocked IP's with "edit page" or "view source" links on every page ''do [[MoinMoin]] or [[tikiwiki]]? on [[Usemod]] no one seems to ever block IPs either''. | ||
We have [[Special:Export|XML-export]] enabled for this [[Development Wiki]] since the upgrade to the new [[MediaWiki]]-software <s>, but the only [[wiki]]-[[software]] that currently supports the import is [[GetWiki]]</s>. | |||
The GFDL guarantee also includes those who do not intend to use the mediawiki software. Bulk dumps are available only in [[MySQL dump]] format, which can be difficult software to run, and, is certainly not suitable for most purposes of a [[large public wiki]] (text searches, for instance, take an extraordinary amount of compute and disk time). | |||
=== Help === | |||
* [[mw:Manual:DumpBackup.php]] how to XML dump | |||
* [[mw:Manual:Importing XML dumps]] hot to import XML dump | |||