Re: Debian Wiki Experiment

On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 05:40:30PM +0800, Maytham Alsudany wrote:
>On Fri, 2024-06-28 at 17:57 +0100, Arthur Diniz wrote:
>> Dear www team,
>> 
>> Recently I've been experimenting with new wiki open-source softwares
>> to propose a migration to Debian Wiki.
>> 
>> I know there is an in progress transition to MoinMoin newest version
>> but I would like to come with another alternative as well.
>> 
>> For that I would need a copy of all content from the current Debian
>> wiki to validate and test how the pages will look like during my
>> experiments.
>> 
>> Is there any way to get a list of all pages or an actual dump from the
>> pages content folder from the instance that is hosting it?
>
>Since there's been no reply for a while: a list of all pages can be
>found at https://wiki.debian.org/TitleIndex (be careful, it takes a
>while to load). At the time of writing, the index counts 18,841 wiki
>pages.
>
>It would be easy to write a script to download the raw content of each
>page.

But that's likely to get you blocked if it's hitting the wiki too
fast. As I said in the response last June:#

> Sure: if you'd like a dump of the content, we can do that for
> you. It's quite large, so it's not something we generate very often or
> offer for public download. Would you like the data?