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Has anyone attempted to restore a running copy of wikipedia from the dumps? If so do the dumps provide enough data that, in the event of a catastrophic data failure, wikipedia could be brought back up using just the backups?--[[User:Adewale|Adewale]] 08:42, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Has anyone attempted to restore a running copy of wikipedia from the dumps? If so do the dumps provide enough data that, in the event of a catastrophic data failure, wikipedia could be brought back up using just the backups?--[[User:Adewale|Adewale]] 08:42, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
* That's a very good question. The problem is that the dumps are now insanely huge. I don't know how many people would even have the capacity to unpack them. --[[User:Jscott|Jscott]] 15:45, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
* That's a very good question. The problem is that the dumps are now insanely huge. I don't know how many people would even have the capacity to unpack them. --[[User:Jscott|Jscott]] 15:45, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
* This: http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/#1 suggests that DBpedia and FreeBase are attempting to maintain their own structured versions of the wikipedia dataset. Theoretically, if Amazon keeps their public dataset up to date, then it is possible to restore wikipedia from that.

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Has anyone attempted to restore a running copy of wikipedia from the dumps? If so do the dumps provide enough data that, in the event of a catastrophic data failure, wikipedia could be brought back up using just the backups?--Adewale 08:42, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

  • That's a very good question. The problem is that the dumps are now insanely huge. I don't know how many people would even have the capacity to unpack them. --Jscott 15:45, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
* This: http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/#1 suggests that DBpedia and FreeBase are attempting to maintain their own structured versions of the wikipedia dataset. Theoretically, if Amazon keeps their public dataset up to date, then it is possible to restore wikipedia from that.