PUBLISHING.md

Publishing the dump

Publishing your dumps to the Internet Archive's wikiteam collection is easily done. First sign up or login.

Launcher and uploader

Instructions on using the scripts launcher and uploader are in the file Usage.

Automatic publishing

Just use uploader (especially if you have multiple wikis): the script takes the filename of a list of wikis as argument and uploads their dumps to archive.org. You only need to:

• Check the 7z compressed dumps are in the same directory as listfile. The file listfile contains a list of the api.php URLs of the wikis to upload, one per line.
• Retrieve your S3 keys, save them one per line (in the order provided) in a keys.txt file in same directory as uploader.
• Run the script uploader listfile.

Manual publishing

• After running dumpgenerator, in each dump folder, select all files, right-click on the selection, click 7-Zip, click Add to archive... and click OK.
• At Archive.org, for each wiki create a new item.
• Click Upload files. Then either drag and drop the 7-Zip archive onto the box or click Choose files and select the 7-Zip archive.
• Page Title and Page URL will be filled in by the uploader.
• Add a short Description, such as a descriptive name fopr the wiki.
• Add Subject Tags, separated by commas, these are the keywords that will help the archive to show up in a Internet Archive search, e.g. wikiteam,wiki,subjects of the wiki, and so on.
• Creator, can be left blank.
• Date, can be left blank.
• Collection, select Community texts.
• Language, select the language of the wiki.
• License, click to expand and select Creative Commons, Allow Remixing, Require Share-Alike for a CC-BY-SA licence.
• Click Upload and Create Your Item.

With the subject tag of wikiteam and collection of community texts, your uploads should appear in a search for subject:"wikiteam" AND collection:opensource.

Info for developers

• Internet Archive’s S3 like server API.