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I have noticed the announcement that Wikispaces, which is hosting the Chess Programming Wiki, is shutting down (http://blog.wikispaces.com/). I hope there are plans to migrate the content elsewhere, because it has been a good resource and reference.

--Jon

Anyone know of an easy method to download an entire wiki for preservation?

jdart wrote:I have noticed the announcement that Wikispaces, which is hosting the Chess Programming Wiki, is shutting down (http://blog.wikispaces.com/). I hope there are plans to migrate the content elsewhere, because it has been a good resource and reference.

--Jon

We have wikitext backups, and some months time to look for another host.

Gerd

For those that want to make an independent backup (better safe than sorry!)

I think I have narrowed down the best programs for the task based on operating system:

OSX / iOS - SiteSucker - http://ricks-apps.com/osx/sitesucker/index.html
Linux / Android - HTTrack - http://www.httrack.com
Windows - WebCopy - https://www.cyotek.com/cyotek-webcopy

I will be making a backup of it. I implore others to also make sure that this resource cannot have an accident.

How big is the backup ? Can we have an idea ? Can we copy it to github ?

Did you backup successfully? As far as I know some websites can detect if it is being downloaded by site suckers and prevent them.

DustyMonkey wrote:For those that want to make an independent backup (better safe than sorry!)

I think I have narrowed down the best programs for the task based on operating system:

OSX / iOS - SiteSucker - http://ricks-apps.com/osx/sitesucker/index.html
Linux / Android - HTTrack - http://www.httrack.com
Windows - WebCopy - https://www.cyotek.com/cyotek-webcopy

I will be making a backup of it. I implore others to also make sure that this resource cannot have an accident.

We have backups of the site and make them regularly. it is about 165 megabytes of data right now. I would request that you do not take up site bandwidth to back it up. I would be happy to get you a copy of the backup whenever you want. We are working on finding a suitable site to host right now, and I would prefer we keep the bandwidth down until that is done.

Mark

I guess the issue is not doing a backup of the data, but figuring out how to get something in place that can use the data without Wikispaces. Means, how either to convert the database to another CMS or use the CMS that Wikispaces is using - provided that this is available.

Thibault is open tu host CPW on a Lichess server.
Is it easy to set up a wikispace-like interface ?

Thibault wrote:we shall not let that wiki die

Ras wrote:I guess the issue is not doing a backup of the data, but figuring out how to get something in place that can use the data without Wikispaces. Means, how either to convert the database to another CMS or use the CMS that Wikispaces is using - provided that this is available.

On the surface, the wikispaces cms is similar to:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download

Searching around for 'import from wikispaces' may generate leads for possible replacement software. There are a lot of people going through the same process at the moment, it is worth checking how they're handing the problem.