OpenJournal:Helping out
Contributing and helping
OpenJournal is ran by volunteers. It is mostly self sustained and thankfully requires minimal interference.
That said, there are a few ways you can help out:
Mirror the website
Mirroring the website on a separate host is one of the best things you can do. It decentralises OpenJournal, reduces our server loads and makes everyone's writings available in more places
Take a copy of the website
Taking a snapshot of the website at a point in time is helpful for data archiving purposes. The database dump is refreshed daily.
Spread the word
The more people that are aware of and use OpenJournal the better. This will hopefully encourage more mirrors, backups and good will gestures.
Download the database
If you'd like to host this website elsewhere or just keep a copy for your own records, you can do so here:
You can read more on the inner workings at Wikipedia's database download page
How to import it
If you are running your own instance of MediaWiki, you can load it via the interface:
- through the browser, at Special:Import -- or
- from the command line:
php maintenance/run.php importDump openjournal-latest.xml.gz