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We archive wikis, from Wikipedia to tiniest wikis

  • !WikiTeam software is a set of tools for archiving wikis.* They work on !MediaWiki wikis, but we want to expand to other wiki engines. As of February 2014, !WikiTeam has preserved more than [AvailableBackups] wikis, several [WikiFarms], regular Wikipedia dumps and 24TB of Wikimedia Commons images.
There are thousands of wikis in the Internet. Everyday some of them are no longer publicly available and, due to lack of [AvailableBackups], lost forever. Millions of people download tons of media files (movies, music, books, etc) from the Internet, implementing a kind of distributed backup. Wikis, most of them under free licenses, disappear from time to time because nobody grabbed a copy of them. That is a shame that we would like to solve.

Current events

The last *news* (follow us on Twitter too!): 

  * 2014-02-14: Today, [https://archive.org/details/wikiteam WikiTeam collection] at Internet Archive has surpassed the 10,000 wikis milestone. We love wikis. Happy Valentine's Day!
  * 2013-10-14: WikiTeam has just finished archiving all [http://commons.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Commons] files up to 2012 on the [https://archive.org/details/wikimediacommons Internet Archive]. About 24 TB of content.
  * 2013-03-17: Niklas Laxström has kindly provided a [https://archive.org/details/wiki-translatewikinet_w dump of translatewiki.net] (13th biggest wiki by number of pages).
  * 2013-01-27: [https://archive.org/details/wikia_dump_20121204 Wikia wikis dumps archived]. About 34,000 wikis have dumps, one tenth of existing Wikia wikis. Wikia has now restricted dump requests to "autoconfirmed" users.

Read [News]. For a more detailed action log, see http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/updates/list.

What can you do?

You can do *a lot of* things: 

  * Read our [FAQ]
  * Download our [http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/source/checkout scripts and software], read our [NewTutorial Tutorial] and backup your favorite wiki. Send us a copy of the backup if you want!
  * Download some [http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/downloads/list?can=1 backups] of wikis. Additionally, there are more backups at [http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22wikiteam%22 Internet Archive].
  * [http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/issues/list Report a bug or request a feature]
  * Use the backups to [Research research] how wiki communities evolve
  * Subscribe to the mailing lists: [http://groups.google.com/group/wikiteam-discuss general discussion] and [http://groups.google.com/group/wikiteam-developers developer discussion]
  * Follow us on Twitter! [http://twitter.com/#!/wikiteamproject @WikiTeamProject]

Research

Are you a *researcher*? If you have conducted any [Research] about wikis using our software or the backups we made available, we would be glad to hear from your experience. [Research].

!WikiTeam in the news, blogs, etc 

  * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2ZTmuX3cog ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack] (Jason Scott at DEFCON 19)
  * [http://siondream.com/blog/proyectos/pfc/iberogre-wiki/backups-de-wikis-con-wikiteam/ Backups de wikis con WikiTeam] (!IberOgre, 2011-06-04) ([http://www.webcitation.org/5zBcEMuCG webcite])
  * [http://softlibre.barrapunto.com/article.pl?sid=11/05/10/070201 WikiTeam: un repositorio de wikis] (Barrapunto, 2011-05-10) ([http://www.webcitation.org/5zBcLaGm4 webcite])

License

This project contains a lot of material. *Be careful with the licenses*. 

  * The [http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/source/checkout source code] is [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html GPLv3]
  * The [http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/w/list documentation] in this site is [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons 3.0 BY-SA]
  * Every [AvailableBackups backup] of every wiki has its own license. Visit the wiki and search for the license of texts and images. Read more in our [FAQ]

Note

Due to lack of space, we do not offer image dumps in Google Code. *The dumps only include the texts of the wikis (usually full histories).* Although you can run the script and generate your own backup which would contain all the texts and images (if you use _--xml_ _--images_ options).

Contact

If you want to *contact with the !WikiTeam community*, you can do it: 

  * For bug reports, new features requests, notices about new wikis to backup: http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/issues/list
  * General discussion about !WikiTeam tools and help for new users: http://groups.google.com/group/wikiteam-discuss
  * Developers discussion about bugs, patches, features: http://groups.google.com/group/wikiteam-developers
  * There is a social IRC channel in Efnet: irc://efnet/wikiteam ([http://chat.efnet.org:9090/?nick=&channels=%23wikiteam&Login=Login webchat access])

Also, every wiki page allows to send comments.

If you want to contact using e-mail, you can send your messages regarding !WikiTeam to emijrp@gmail.com.

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