Feature Request

[misfit815]

First of all, thank you so much to admins for putting the RPG Wiki out there. After nearly two decades of DM'ing, I've finally begun to pool my mess of notes into a unified campaign setting. Along with Jans Carton's Hypertext d20 SRD and Eggertson's 3EProfiler, I think the Wiki is one of the best things to happen to the genre.

Anyway, enough of that. A horrible thought occurred to me the other day, as I was dumping yet more material into the Wiki. I understand that the likelihood is very slight, but what if the site went *poof* and disappeared? I personally would be extremely agitated, as I've already put more effort into it than any other online repository of any kind, and I don't plan on stopping anytime soon.

Is there a way to download the content to some offline destination (aside from things like simple browser caching)? I understand that there would be bandwidth issues and such, but I wonder if it's at all possible. I personally would appreciate some sort of batch downloading capability that I could run once a month or so. Or is there some third-party utility out there that anyone's familiar with?

Well, like I said, backup or no backup, it's still one of my favorite sites, and I can't thank the admins enough.

J

[ShannonA]

I'm not aware of any such utility, but something might exist on the client side.

As for backups:
Internally we regularly back up all of our databases including the Wiki.

Externally sites like the Wayback Machine & Google keep massive caches of old Internet material.

Once something's been posted on the Internet, it's pretty hard for it to go away*.

* Except when our civilization is destroyed, at which point all of our magnetic media will slowly dissolve over thousands of years, leaving any future archeologists almost no record of our Civilization past about 1980 or 1990.

[olace]

Hello,

You can use the special page http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Special:Export to export into an xml format pages from the wiki. Help on how to use this feature can be found here : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Export

Simply save the resulting page.

For importing back the data, you will have to be an administrator. I'm sure if a catastrophic situation would make all wiki data goes *poof*, that you will be able to send the file to rpg.net wiki administrator to recreate your pages.