Wikipedia Mirror Site
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A Wikipedia Mirror Site is a mirror site of Wikipedia based on a Wikipedia snapshot.
- See: Archive.org.
References
2012
- http://www.extremetech.com/computing/114387-how-to-set-up-your-own-copy-of-wikipedia/2
- But if Wikipedia actually goes dark — not in a “soft” sense like today — the only real solution is to have a network of mirrors. Wikipedia, being the awesome site that it is, provides complete dumps of each of its encyclopedias to make the mirroring process quite simple. With a little bit of developery know-how, you can set up your very own Wikipedia mirror, accessible and editable by the public, just like Wikipedia itself.
If you’re using Ubuntu or Debian, you can run this command to get everything installed:
- But if Wikipedia actually goes dark — not in a “soft” sense like today — the only real solution is to have a network of mirrors. Wikipedia, being the awesome site that it is, provides complete dumps of each of its encyclopedias to make the mirroring process quite simple. With a little bit of developery know-how, you can set up your very own Wikipedia mirror, accessible and editable by the public, just like Wikipedia itself.
apt-get install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server mysql-client php5-mysql phpmyadmin .