Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Dr. Kent L. Miller" <wpmirror...@gmail.com>


* Package name    : wp-mirror
  Version         : 0.3.0
  Upstream Author : Dr. Kent L. Millr <wpmirror...@gmail.com>
* URL             : http://www.nongnu.org/wp-mirror/
* License         : GPLv3
  Programming Lang: Common Lisp (CLISP 2.48)
  Description     : Utility for building mirrors of Wikipedias

Wp-mirror is a free utility for building and maintaining a set of 
mirrors of Wikipedias (aka a Wikipedia farm).  The WikiMedia Foundation 
offers Wikipedias in nearly 300 languages.  The user specifies the set 
of languages to be mirrored (`simple' is the default, Simple English 
means shorter sentences).

Disk requirements for the `simple' wiki (as of 2011) are: 2G to store 
the database (latest revisions only for articles, templates, image 
descriptions, and primary meta-pages), and a further 40G to store the 
images.  This can easily fit on a laptop PC, and takes 100ks (a day) to 
build.

Disk requirements for the `en' wiki (as of 2011) are: 150G to store the 
database (latest revisions as above), and about 2T to store the images. 
This requires a desktop PC with at least two large hard disk drives, and 
one may expect 5Ms (two months) to build.

Wp-mirror is non-interactive and usually runs in background as a weekly 
cron job, updating the mirrors whenever WikiMedia Foundation posts new 
dump files.

If the user runs more than one instance of wp-mirror concurrently, the 
later ones monitor the progress of the first.  If a suitable windowing 
system is present, progress bars are rendered using graphics in a 
separate window, and otherwise using ASCII characters in a console.



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