Hi Bruce,
On Mon, 2026-01-05 at 11:01 +0000, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
> > On 5 Jan 2026, at 05:42, Max Chernoff via ntg-context <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Probably the easiest solution would be to just have a fully-static site
> > that's automatically updated once a week or so by using something like
> > this
> >
> > https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner
>
> That looks to be a good option for when you don't control the site
> that you are making a copy of, however we do control the site so I'm
> wondering if there's a better way?
I also assumed that there would be a better way, but when I Googled
"mediawiki export static html", this was the only non-abandoned option
that I could find, although I might have missed something. It looks like
this is also what Wikipedia uses
https://farm.openzim.org/recipes/wikipedia_en_all_maxi
which suggests that there may not be a better solution.
> I would quite like to see the site made available as a series of
> static web pages in a Git repository, so it can be easily cloned and
> only the updated pages need be downloaded with each update. Zim looks
> like it means copying the whole site each time, but I don't know it
> well enough to be sure.
I think that the ConTeXt Wiki is small enough that this shouldn't make a
huge difference either way---after compression, I'd be very surprised if
it were larger than the default ConTeXt installation.
> If the static web pages were hosted on Github then there is a (free)
> feature called "Github pages" which means that Github will host the
> site as well provide the repository.
If we're able to export it to static HTML, there are tons of places that
we can host it for free, so that shouldn't be too much of an issue. But
GitHub has a relatively low limit on the number of files/size of
individual files/total repository size that we _might_ run into (but
probably not).
Thanks,
-- Max
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