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Good day,

Over 6 months ago I had TurtleWiki deleted from Miraheze due to a long period of inactivity. I saved what I believed to be the necessary file dumps to Archive.org, and then I left if alone for a while. On my return, it turns out that a friend of mine had gone ahead and recreated TurtleWiki and was seeking the backed up files. Unfortunately, none of the files I saved seem to be the correct type, leading me to believe that either I was incredibly dumb when I made the backups or I'm not looking at the right files.

Here is a link to the directory containing the 6 files I saved: https://archive.org/download/turtlewiki-datadump

If anyone could direct me as to how (if possible) I could restore those backups to TurtleWiki (I am currently a Bureaucrat), I would appreciate it very much.

Thanks, let me know if you need more information.

  • Turtle84375

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Actually, it looks like https://archive.org/download/turtlewiki-datadump/index.php is a XML dump (despite the file extension), and https://archive.org/download/turtlewiki-datadump/index_(1).php is an image dump (actually a tar.gz file, despite the extension). The file Reception123 linked to has to do with archive.org and has no content relevant to the wiki.

Actually, it looks like https://archive.org/download/turtlewiki-datadump/index.php is a XML dump (despite the file extension), and https://archive.org/download/turtlewiki-datadump/index_(1).php is an image dump (actually a tar.gz file, despite the extension).

That's... convoluted.

So, theoretically if I convert the files and upload them via Special:Import, it should work properly? Or is there something else I have to do?

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Actually, it looks like https://archive.org/download/turtlewiki-datadump/index.php is a XML dump (despite the file extension), and https://archive.org/download/turtlewiki-datadump/index_(1).php is an image dump (actually a tar.gz file, despite the extension).

That's... convoluted.

So, theoretically if I convert the files and upload them via Special:Import, it should work properly? Or is there something else I have to do?

Well if the files are larger than 1MB we'd need to do them for you.

@Turtle84375 So would you like both the XML and images to be imported by us?

@Turtle84375 So would you like both the XML and images to be imported by us?

I'm not turtle but could you try do that now?

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@Turtle84375 So would you like both the XML and images to be imported by us?

I'm not turtle but could you try do that now?

Well I'd like them to confirm that that is what they want first.

@Turtle84375 So would you like both the XML and images to be imported by us?

I'm not turtle but could you try do that now?

Well I'd like them to confirm that that is what they want first.

Yes, I would like this to be done.

Actually, it looks like https://archive.org/download/turtlewiki-datadump/index.php is a XML dump (despite the file extension), and https://archive.org/download/turtlewiki-datadump/index_(1).php is an image dump (actually a tar.gz file, despite the extension). The file Reception123 linked to has to do with archive.org and has no content relevant to the wiki.

How did you figure out that the php file was an XML? When I change the file extension I don't see XML content.

Luckily enough, I've found a dump that we made before deletion so we'll just be able to import that (though it doesn't include images)

It looks like it's actually gzip-compressed XML, and I was using an editor that automatically uncompressed the file without clearly communicating to me that it was doing so. Sorry for confusing everyone.