Temporary backup wiki online

eqgeeks · #1 03-19-2026, 07:23 AM

I've put online a backup of the wiki that I've done in January. It should be mostly complete but some custom stuff doesn't work (eg: item price tracker, Magelo). But for regular stuff such as looking items or NPCs up, it should work.

It's a read-only replica that is not meant to be modified or logged into.

I hope this is fine with the admins - otherwise, please let me know and I will take it down.

https://p99wiki.eqgeeks.org

loramin · #2 03-19-2026, 10:37 AM

Very impressive, thanks for doing that!

Swish · #3 03-19-2026, 12:06 PM

Awesome stuff, thank you. I know a lot of Quarm players reference the wiki here too.

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TheBlob · #4 03-19-2026, 03:54 PM

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Goregasmic · #5 03-19-2026, 03:59 PM

Hey thanks! I use the wiki a ton and looking everything through the wayback machine was annoying, this will do for now!

TheBlob · #6 03-19-2026, 06:41 PM

Let's say I'd also like to be a guardian of knowledge, may I ask how you did the backup of the wiki?

Do you work for the Project (and have access to something helping the process), or does it involve manually saving each page one by one, or is there an easy "download all" button somewhere?

And may I ask how much space it all takes?

OriginalContentGuy · #7 03-19-2026, 08:58 PM

A thought experiment to illustrate a question I have for those more knowledgeable-

Code:

Pretend I am the administrator for Elfwiki which runs on mediawiki. I want to backup the entirety of the site consisting of the totality of pages and all dependencies (such as tables, formatting, images) which have been created by users into, ultimately, a single container (e.g. a .zip file) at the present moment: time zero. 

The stated goal at time zero would be a scenario where visitors to Elfwiki.com could download this backup container, and with a simple and FOSS toolchain, themselves host mirrors of the wiki site which then are indexed by Elfwiki servers. 

The stated goal at times beyond time zero is a scenario where at intervals, administrators can release supplemental container files consisting of only the changes made to pages/dependencies(which would be necessarily smaller than a full backup), and those hosting mirrors while still using an FOSS toolchain could update their mirrors using these small, periodic updates.

In a perfect scenario all images would be cryptographically signed by the official source and mirrors would be automatically validated and indexed without the need for human intervention, or even, in the case of a site outage on Elfwiki's primary host/server, there will exist a means to seamlessly and automatically point visitors to the wiki's URL address (which directs to the primary server during uptime) instead to an online and validated mirror.

Is there already a codebase extant which is available for use that would allow me to achieve all my stated goals as its primary stated design purpose? If not, how can I achieve all stated goals using FOSS tools?

Reiwa · #8 03-19-2026, 10:01 PM

Little Bobby break tables

Dabeach · #9 03-20-2026, 04:22 AM

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I've put online a backup of the wiki that I've done in January. It should be mostly complete but some custom stuff doesn't work (eg: item price tracker, Magelo). But for regular stuff such as looking items or NPCs up, it should work.

It's a read-only replica that is not meant to be modified or logged into.

I hope this is fine with the admins - otherwise, please let me know and I will take it down.

https://p99wiki.eqgeeks.org

Helo bud, I am part of the Fuse bot & site dev/admin group and I've been attempting to do this myself a while back, seems i gotten most but its been feisty, a work in progress that I've been working slow on.

Can I request a copy of your site files if possible?, if anything I want to attach it to our dkp.fuseguild.org site for our own members to use publicly or private if the p99 admins frown on your work.

thank you, yer clone is wuwu )

eqgeeks · #10 03-20-2026, 05:02 AM

Ideally you would not want to make a copy of a copy and so on, each time potentially losing a bit of information so the original wiki is the proper source for cloning.

However, if in a month or so, the original wiki doesn't come back, I will do an export of the wiki and make it available for download (that would require me to purchase a bigger VPS).

Until then, feel free to save it locally using software such as HTTrack - in fact, quite a few folks are doing it right now. Kindly be reasonable about request rates, as I said it runs on a small VPS. There are about 60k pages so even with a delay of two seconds between requests you're done in a couple days.