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shanecrowley 2831413ef2 add senior pages from data dump the original data dump of wiki.ubuntu.com also contained a "senior pages" directory. these were mostly last modified over 17 years ago. they needed some separate cleanup and processing before including in the archive. duplicates also needed to be checked between /pages/ and /seniorpages/. no equivalent /seniorpages/ existed for the community wiki. many pages are short user profiles. most of these were kept in unless they were truly empty, for posterity. this commit also updated the README and the UbuntuWiki page index.		2026-02-27 11:56:48 +00:00
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UbuntuCommunityHelpWiki	fix formatting in warning text	2026-02-12 19:28:48 +00:00
UbuntuWiki	add senior pages from data dump	2026-02-27 11:56:48 +00:00
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README.md	add senior pages from data dump	2026-02-27 11:56:48 +00:00

README.md

Archive of Ubuntu wikis (2004-2026)

This is a public, readonly archive of the source text for two (soon to be) deprecated Ubuntu wikis:

UbuntuWiki: archived from wiki.ubuntu.com
UbuntuCommunityHelpWiki: archived from help.ubuntu.com/community/CommunityHelpWiki

As these wikis were very large, we sorted each into alphanumeric subdirectories, to improve search and navigation on GitHub.

Note

There are a very large number of pages in this archive.

To find a page or topic, use the search function on GitHub.

Tip

The plaintext archive is deliberatly lean. Tarballs are also available as release assets.

These contain multiple page versions, images, attachments, and other data that could not be included in the repository directly.

Archive of Ubuntu wikis (2004-2026)

Purpose of these archives

These archives are intended to serve two purposes:

Preserve an important part of Ubuntu history in a way that's easy to access
Make pages available to contributors and teams who may need to copy, download, or migrate them

Caution

The content in these wikis has been archived and is readonly.

The wikis have been archived for historical preservation and to aid content migrations.

The wiki pages are not maintained and may not be reliable. Do not use them as documentation.

There may be formatting issues associated with a syntax conversion necessary for rendering on GitHub.

If you need pages closer to their original format, download tarballs from Releases.

Limitations of the text-based archive

We have needed to remove content, including images, attachments and versions, to reduce space requirements.
To make the pages more readable on GitHub, we have converted the markup to MediaWiki style. This conversion is not perfect, partially due to inconsistencies in the original sources. You may encounter formatting and rendering errors.
This archive is not intended to be used for general reference or to be maintained with working links. Most links are wrapped in <nowiki> tags and will not work.
The index for the larger wiki is too long for GitHub to render fully. To view the complete index, you must view the raw file. In a local copy, you can use the index for navigating to the files; for example, using g f in Vim.
As GitHub may truncate large long lists, use its search function as much as possible.

If 1 and 2 are a problem, use the tarballs provided as release assets.

Suitable for most use-cases: text-only wiki archives

The original wikis were built using the Moinmoin wiki engine. To make archives that were readable and searchable on GitHub, the following modifications were made:

Removed any files that were empty or that contained spam.
Removed any version of a page that wasn't the latest version.
Removed named parent folders for pages and transferred the name to the relevant file.
Removed URL encoding from filenames.
Converted Moinmoin wiki syntax to MediaWiki syntax, which renders on GitHub.
Added a top-level warning to all pages about limitations of the wiki.
Sorted pages in each wiki into alphanumeric folders (GitHub truncates long lists of files).

For the completionists: wiki tarballs

Compressed tarballs of the wikis are available as GitHub release assets.

These include images, attachments, and page versions. The source pages are unmodified, so they use Moinmoin syntax.

The Community Help Wiki is provided as a single tarball.

The wiki.ubuntu.com archive exceeds the GitHub asset limit by an order of magnitude. For this reason, the tarball is split into smaller parts, which can be re-assembled before extraction.