User:Sj/wikiserve

wikiserver, n. : a proposed server including archives of publicly available wiki projects.

This would include:

• Wikimedia
  • dumps over time
  • a [mostly-live] mirror of the current projects
• other wiki projects (Wikia, Wikitravel)
  • dumps over time
  • a mirror of the current projects
• Statistics and indices
  • a copy of wmf statistics
  • subsets of data, randomized or otherwise, that could be reused
  • scripts and small services [available to copy and run on your own site; not necessarily run in place]
• Computational clusters
  • for running large-scale (not necc. interactive) scripts over large datasets, to generate secondary datasets
• Bandwidth
  • primarily for uploading new data and grabbing named datasets.

Specific projects that could use this:

• HistoryFlow - running HF regularly to generate full visualizations of article history; making thumbnails of these, available at a guessable URL so readers can see these thumbnails alongside article titles
• Dumpslicing - generating specific subsets, such as for dvds, offline readers, mobile clients, or stats generators; also producing indices and other summaries for use in aggregate research

Research that could use this:

• What sorts of OS / SourceForge projects make it to an article? What sorts of corporations make it?
• ... (add yours here!)

toolservers could include a wikiserver, though the ideal wikiserver in my eyes would include all publicly available versioned and collaborative data -- and would want some 15-20TB of disk and a few dozen cpu's to generate some of the known and interesting secondary datasets that researchers are interested in.

interested people and groups?

- manal, cci, eric vh, mako
- yochai, judith, aaron
- large db analyses : BC... who else?

other thoughts : design levers, classifying cases, biology v genetics and memetics, amt-semiauto.