http://gentoo-{wiki,portage}.com doesnt work for me?

kaldek · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 10:26 pm Post subject:

Hmmm. Financial crisis causes meltdown of hosting provider and they close their doors??

Just a thought.
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phgamer · n00b Joined: 17 Oct 2008 Posts: 4

I noticed he uses Media Wiki. It looks like there's no nice way of duplicating wiki using that software in a nice way. Both text and images. Their main idea for replication is a mysql dump ::shudders:: though they have an XML format for content. But that still leaves things like images and that would have to expose the filesystem. Meh...

Sprotte · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:19 pm Post subject:

someone should make a backup of that stuff before it's too late.

using google cache if necessary.

Bitspyer · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:57 pm Post subject:

@Kaldek:

That was my first thougt too!
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kernelOfTruth · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 7:01 pm Post subject:

Januszzz · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:30 pm Post subject:

Relaxx!

Data is in ours heads (and in google cache until now).

If the wiki is lost I swear I'll devote one month of my live for restoring it from anything I find. The wiki gave me pain but knowledge, I do Gentoo Linux for living, so I won't hesitate to rescue it :-)

Regards and wish steel nerves to Mike :-)

PS. I'm nervous too...

Sprotte · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:41 pm Post subject:

I'll help if necessary, I suspect many will.

All right.

kaldek · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 4:53 am Post subject:

+1 here. Also willing to help with a rebuild effort.

Seriously, the Gentoo Wiki is one of the best Linux resources out there. A google search with "Gentoo <random word>" always has a Gentoo-wiki response, and I don't want that to go away.
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hujuice · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 1:58 pm Post subject:

+1
Ready to work to definitively face the problem.

d2_racing · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:53 pm Post subject:

In fact, I saw a wiki about an another distro, and they link to gentoo-wiki.

So, Gentoo-wiki need to be up

fukas · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 5:11 pm Post subject:

>Seriously, the Gentoo Wiki is one of the best Linux resources out there

That's absolutely true. Let's try not to loose it!
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AllenJB · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:21 am Post subject:

kaldek · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 12:42 am Post subject:

Folks,

The latest update from the admin increases the likelihood of total data/server loss (hosting provider has financial difficulties, network connections to boxes cancelled).

I'm going to spend some time on working out how to produce a full dump from Google of the articles and content. Then, we can build an index of articles and farm out the work (once new servers are back online).

This all assumes Mike - the admin - will accept our help, but I dare say he will.
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yngwin · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 1:12 am Post subject:

Doesn't he have a backup? We should be able to organize hosting somewhere.
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honeymak · Guru Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 481

i guess gentoo-wiki.com is a volunteer site? isn't it?

so bad that any site and every site is affected by SP.........
but this is the fact.......no never down SP
so.......
hope they get well soon

gentoo-wiki is so invaluable to me
it's great stuff and contributions from everywhere and everyone who loves gentoo ^_^
:oops:

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think4urs11 · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 6:31 am Post subject:

Strayer · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 10:15 am Post subject:

I always use gentoo wiki when I'm at work... Sometimes I even had problems with our stupid Ubuntu servers that could only be fixed by searching through gentoo-wiki. It's a very good resource, would be sad if it is lost...
Maybe it should get some more work to clean out horrible articles - but that lies in the will of the community. It works for wikipedia.org, so why not for gentoo-wiki.

I do understand why it is not an official resource, but I still think it is important to get it up again.

meadow · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 12:46 pm Post subject:

meanwhile there ist nothing to see, when visiting the url

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:08 pm Post subject:

ianw1974 · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 3:47 pm Post subject:

Gentoo-wiki has the same info as gentoo-portage. Maybe it's redirecting to one or the other. This makes sense, as then he only needs to provide updates on one page.
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meadow · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 5:42 pm Post subject:

M · Guru Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 432

I made a script to fetch pages from google cache, just in case, I got panicked when I found out about this drama

You can find script here . My ip was banned while I tested the script but now I started script from work and it fetched about 300 pages so far. Anyway I hope everything will be ok.