The last administrative wiki backup was 18 Jul 2026 03:39
When making your own backups, please reset the counter1 and add your backup on top of the table.
| When? | Who? | Method | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-18 ~5:40 UTC+2 | wget -e robots=off -mcpkEHN -nv -a wikicrawl.log --compression=none --show-progress --default-page=start.html --domains=ci-wiki.wikidot.com,wdfiles.com,cloudfront.net --exclude-domains=thumbnails.wdfiles.com http://ci-wiki.wikidot.com/ || tail -n 3 wikicrawl.log | On-device Samsung PM981a MZVLB2T0HALB | |
| 2026-06-28 ~19:40 UTC+2 | wget -e robots=off -m -c -p -k -nc -E -H --load-cookies cookies_28-06-26.txt --default-page=start.html --domains=ci-wiki.wikidot.com,wdfiles.com,cloudfront.net --exclude-domains=thumbnails.wdfiles.com http://ci-wiki.wikidot.com/ | Cookies exported from logged-in Firefox, PC HDD | |
| 2026-05-07 ~14:00 UTC+2 | wget -e robots=off -m -c -p -k -nc -E -H --default-page=start.html --domains=ci-wiki.wikidot.com,wdfiles.com,cloudfront.net --exclude-domains=thumbnails.wdfiles.com http://ci-wiki.wikidot.com/ | On-device Samsung PM981a MZVLB2T0HALB, Intenso Alu Line USB drive. (To be also transferred to an externel HDD when I find time) |
Creating backups yourself.
Administration is currently using a fairly simple shell script to crawl the wiki and all of it's content to create a static local copy. It relies on the command-line tool Wget which is available on pretty much every flavour of Unix under the sun; if it isn't and you're using it, you're probably more of a tech wizz than we are, so we can't help you
Important note to Windows users
You can run Wget on Windows! For this, you need a Linux shell. For this, you need either the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) or git bash. Microsoft recommends the former, but it's a beefy install with plenty of confusing configuration options. If you have no idea what you're doing, I recommend the much simpler Git Bash alternative.
However, please note that the "wget" provided in PowerShell is just an alias for Invoke-WebRequest which works completely differently. Why Microsoft would decide to use such deceptive defaults? They're Microsoft.
1. Create an archive Directory
I (Zesc) personally tend to name mine simple CI<YYYYMMDD>, with <YYYYMMDD> being the current date, but really, choose whatever you want. You technically can re-use already existing backups and overwrite them only with updated files, but with archive sizes of not even 200 MB, it's probably easier and safer to create a new directory each time you crawl the wiki.
Navigate into the new directory by using cd <path> where <path> is the absolute or relative location of your archive. (Note for Windows users: due to using backslashes, you might have to put your path into a pair of quotes).
2. Run the Script
Execute the following two lines of shellscript:
date +"Starting Wiki Backup Crawl at %4Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z [%s]" >> wikicrawl.log
wget -e robots=off -mcpkEHN -nv -a wikicrawl.log --compression=none --show-progress --default-page=start.html --domains=ci-wiki.wikidot.com,wdfiles.com,cloudfront.net --exclude-domains=thumbnails.wdfiles.com http://ci-wiki.wikidot.com/ || tail -n 3 wikicrawl.log(Note that the first line isn't strictly necessary, but it provides you with the info when the crawl started, and also the handy-dandy timestamp to enter when resetting the counter above).
3. Wait
On a residential internet connection, this process may take about 15 to 20 minutes. You'll see progress for every single file downloaded; when finished, you should see something like
FINISHED 2026-07-18 05:57:31
Total wall clock time: 16m 58s
Downloaded: 2729 files, 170M in 2m 6s (1,34 MB/s)
4. Inspect the archive
Open the subdirectory ci-wiki.wikidot.com and from there open any of the HTML files (the main page is start.html, which should open in your browser. From there, you can navigate the wiki as you're used to.
If the top naviagtion bar appears broken, please check the discussion thread for a preliminary fix.
Further Configuration options
Wget can run in the background using the command-line flag -b. I recommend removing —show-progress in that case. Wget can also load cookies from your browser, in case you want the archive to appear as if you were logged in. There are also various settings specific to dealing with proxies, rate-limits, etc. Please refer to the manual for those.
In-depth: what does each flag mean?
TODO
