[WikiEN-l] Please remove user data and talk pages from database dumps!

Thu Dec 29 20:40:37 UTC 2005

Bryan Derksen wrote:
> But then there'd have to be a new separate database dump that _did_
> include the user/talk pages. The purpose of the database dumps is not
> just to allow someone to toss up a mirror of the current article
> versions and make a few bucks from banner ads, it's to allow Wikipedia
> as a whole to be researched or recreated or otherwise manipulated in
> ways that can't be done just from the existing website. The user and
> talk pages are important parts of how Wikipedia functions, they should
> be available for historical reasons if nothing else.

I think this is a reasonable solution.  What would be glorious would be
to have a standard package to allow people to throw up mirrors easily
and *properly*, including what we want them to include, and not
including what we don't want them to include.

--Jimbo