"Davdi Silverrock" <davdisil at gmail.com> writes: > On 6/28/06, Jon_Lincicum wrote: > > > > > Certainly, there are wiki-engines out there that a fan could set up to > > maintain the site as a wiki on a different server, but this is getting > > into areas where I have no personal expertise, and the idea of migrating > > this much information to a new server gives me separate migranes behind > > each eyeball. > > Looking at these pages, > > http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Database_download > > http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Database_download > > The migration itself doesn't look too painful. I just grabbed the > most recent XML files, and they're 1.9MB & 28MB (current page > revisions and full page history, respectively, as of last night). > > Of course, setting up a MySQL DB & configuring Wikimedia, well, that > could get hairy. Does it have to be MySQL? Last time I ran a database it was PostgreSQL here, for various reasons, and there may be even better reasons on the next incarnation of servers. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b at dd-b.net>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>