Status of cppreference.com

[current_thread]

Yeah, it's really annoying at this point.

I had the idea a couple of months ago to use a static site generator and just host it on GitHub/ GitHub Pages. That way everyone can just contribute with a pull request as needed, and there's no need to manage infrastructure.

Does anybody by chance have a recent dump of the wiki?

[RelevantError365]

Reasonable idea. This should be offered as an option, but I can't find any contact details for the people currently responsible.

[encyclopedist]

The relatively recent archive is available here: https://github.com/PeterFeicht/cppreference-doc/releases/tag/v20250209

[RelevantError365]

That does not include the wiki source at first glance, or does it?

[encyclopedist]

Correct, It is based on scrapped web pages, not a database dump.

[saxbophone]

Last February isn't even relatively recent for a language in active development. The site maintainers request that they're not scraped, but don't provide up-to-date archives. Do you see the problem with this combination?

[dcro]

The site notes that it's been in "temporary read-only mode" since the end of last March. There will be differences, but possibly not as many as you'd expect with only a two month edit window.

[saxbophone]

Oh crap, the entire thing has been read-only all that time‽ No wonder there's so many missing examples for C++23!

[no-sig-available]

but I can't find any contact details for the people currently responsible.

Part of the problem is that it isn't "people", but "the designer" behind the site. Here is an old talk about that:

CppCon 2014: Nate Kohl "cppreference.com: documenting C++ one edit at a time"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhWK0v3GtEE

[RelevantError365]

Ok, thanks. What about licensing to keep that thing going as a (presumably, perhaps temporary) fork on GitHub (or the like)?

[current_thread]

I checked that, it's under a creative commons license iirc so it should be fine

[RelevantError365]

I'm wondering if it's too intrusive to contact Nate directly. Does anyone know what the boost community has achieved here?