[wp-edu] wp-edu Digest, Vol 72, Issue 3
Michael McGlynn
mcglynn_michael at wheatoncollege.edu
Wed Jan 27 18:24:19 UTC 2016
This caught my eye:
"enough that mysqldump would choke and die horribly if you tried to dump the
entire Wordpress database"
So how, in fact, was the database backed up?
Thanks,
Mike
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> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 11:25:57 -0500
> From: Ben Bakelaar <bakelaar at rutgers.edu>
> To: "Low-traffic list discussing WordPress in education."
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> That?s awesome, thanks!
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> *From:* wp-edu [mailto:wp-edu-bounces at lists.automattic.com] *On Behalf
> Of *Jason
> Heffner
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 27, 2016 11:16 AM
> *To:* Low-traffic list discussing WordPress in education.
> *Subject:* Re: [wp-edu] Who has a large Wordpress network being run by
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> Hi Ben,
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> There is an unofficial list that someone started over at
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> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZmAqDjhkn-9GfkgiwK2lbQvuuMsCmmc6zNaZNVm_kI/edit#gid=0
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> that might help
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> p: (814) 865-1840, c: (814) 777-7665
> Systems Administrator
> Teaching and Learning with Technology, Information Technology Services
> The Pennsylvania State University
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> On Jan 27, 2016, at 10:44 AM, Ben Bakelaar <bakelaar at rutgers.edu> wrote:
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> I guess this is an informal survey. Feel free to respond to me off-list.
> Looking to build up a list of examples of university names running
> Wordpress-as-a-service for their constituents. If you have total number of
> sites, that would be cool too. Also if you are running the service
> internally or through a hosting company like Campuspress or WPEngine.
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> From: Michael Barnard <mbarnard at mtholyoke.edu>
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> We're running two Wordpress instances here at Mount Holyoke, both
> internally hosted: folio.mtholyoke.edu (e-portfolios) and
> commons.mtholyoke.edu (student blogs/sites). I don't have numbers off the
> top of my head, but we launched Commons last year and I seem to remember
> it's got a couple hundred or so blogs/sites on it so far, which is fairly
> substantial given that we only have a couple thousand students. Both
> services are growing steadily.
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> I used to work at UMass Amherst and I know they have an internally-hosted
> Wordpress instance at blogs.umass.edu. This has a few thousand blogs on it
> (enough that mysqldump would choke and die horribly if you tried to dump
> the entire Wordpress database). Much of what's there was just built by
> students for various classes and immediately abandoned, but they do prune
> old content after the blog owners leave UMass, so it's not all a gigantic
> mass of abandoned content.
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> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Ben Bakelaar <bakelaar at rutgers.edu>
> wrote:
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> > I guess this is an informal survey. Feel free to respond to me off-list.
> > Looking to build up a list of examples of university names running
> > Wordpress-as-a-service for their constituents. If you have total number
> of
> > sites, that would be cool too. Also if you are running the service
> > internally or through a hosting company like Campuspress or WPEngine.
> >
> >
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> > BEN BAKELAAR | IT Services
> > School of Communication and Information
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> > Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
> > p 848.932.8710
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> From: Jim Doran <jim.doran at gmail.com>
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> University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC): http://sites.umbc.edu/
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> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Michael Barnard <mbarnard at mtholyoke.edu>
> wrote:
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> > We're running two Wordpress instances here at Mount Holyoke, both
> > internally hosted: folio.mtholyoke.edu (e-portfolios) and
> > commons.mtholyoke.edu (student blogs/sites). I don't have numbers off
> the
> > top of my head, but we launched Commons last year and I seem to remember
> > it's got a couple hundred or so blogs/sites on it so far, which is fairly
> > substantial given that we only have a couple thousand students. Both
> > services are growing steadily.
> >
> > I used to work at UMass Amherst and I know they have an internally-hosted
> > Wordpress instance at blogs.umass.edu. This has a few thousand blogs on
> > it (enough that mysqldump would choke and die horribly if you tried to
> dump
> > the entire Wordpress database). Much of what's there was just built by
> > students for various classes and immediately abandoned, but they do prune
> > old content after the blog owners leave UMass, so it's not all a gigantic
> > mass of abandoned content.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Ben Bakelaar <bakelaar at rutgers.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I guess this is an informal survey. Feel free to respond to me off-list.
> >> Looking to build up a list of examples of university names running
> >> Wordpress-as-a-service for their constituents. If you have total number
> of
> >> sites, that would be cool too. Also if you are running the service
> >> internally or through a hosting company like Campuspress or WPEngine.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ---------------------------------
> >> BEN BAKELAAR | IT Services
> >> School of Communication and Information
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> >> Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
> >> p 848.932.8710
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> From: "Grogan, David" <David.Grogan at tufts.edu>
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> Hello folks,
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> We are looking into standing up the WP based Commons in a Box (
> http://commonsinabox.org/) from CUNY.
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> Has anyone else on this list done this? I'm particularly interested in how
> people built critical mass in terms of faculty use. How did you get faculty
> engaged with the site and then maintain their interest in using it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
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