WikiDevi going down soon

wikidevi has always been a very valuable source of information, beyond the narrower scope of OpenWrt itself. I frequent it very often for devices that aren't supported by OpenWrt (respectively even if I don't even have an idea if OpenWrt supports it), to get a rough idea if the device could be supported at all (e.g. SOC, wireless, flash/ RAM, etc. - most importantly, FCC IDs and links to the FCC reports/ images). Given that its focus is more targeted on the hardware itself, beyond 'just' OpenWrt, it has a lot of contributors even for devices which will never get OpenWrt support (and for which a device page in the OpenWrt wiki wouldn't really make sense), which makes it a very valuable resource before considering the next step of getting OpenWrt running (or running to the hills for another device).

5 Likes

Apparently the admin of that site is trying to manually copy & paste all the info from wikidevi to their new site page by page.

If its going down that is extremely bad news, wikidevi is a big factor in the recent surge of openwrt popularity as its providing a lot of useful documentation for openwrt.

I really dont understand why projects just get pulled suddenly instead of reaching out to communities for help, the help would surely be provided.

Is it already down? I have been waiting to connect to it for the past two minutes in browser.

I just noticed the "end" of wikidevi message on the site. For me (and i think a lot of users) wikidevi is vital and so is its content. Is there anything "we", let me rephrase, "i" can do to help? I'm not very familiar with web development; is it possible for a guest to grab the contents of the site?

wget -mirror might help. https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/html_node/Recursive-Retrieval-Options.html#Recursive-Retrieval-Options

View change history of https://wikidevi.com/wiki/User_talk:M86

1 Like

techinfodepot seems to be the new wikidevi.

http://en.techinfodepot.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page

3 Likes

I'm not exactly sure if something hosted on pretty much random free (as in free beer) hosting should be ultimately trusted as source of valuable data.

Sadly one day before original deadline wikidevi.com is down :frowning:

Techinfodepot is built on wikidevi data.

1 Like

given that there is an idiot that constantly reverts updated info it is better that it goes down and don't come back anymore. site admin is not quite smart to limit editing to registered user

1 Like

The Wayback Machine (aka Internet Archive project)'s last snapshot of wikidevi was taken in 2019 10 22
https://web.archive.org/web/20191022065144/https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Main_Page

1 Like

final dumps should become available at https://web.archive.org/web/20191022065144/https://archive.org/details/wikidevi
the site was up till yesterday

1 Like

The dumps at https://archive.org/download/wikidevi appear to be the most recent.

This resource is built on the latest dump of the project database: https://wikidevi.wi-cat.ru/index.php/Main_Page

Do you have a contact with someone who manages the page? The Create Account link is broken because the Captcha question is never displayed and there doesn't seem to be a link to contact anyone if you don't have an account.

Promise to fix by the end of January, alas - more information yet I have no.

you can try again now, I think it's fixed.

Thank you, it worked and I've made my 1st contribution!

1 Like

I'm finding that https://wikidevi.wi-cat.ru appears to be a much more coherent replacement for wikidevi. In fact redirecting all https://wikidevi.com/wiki/ links to https://wikidevi.wi-cat.ru/ should just work. And I will be continuing my contributions there.

FYI