On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Sameer Verma <sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote: > I've been debating the possibility of running a *complete* copy of > Wikipedia (txt and images) offline on the XS. At this point, the > targets are English (https://en.wikipedia.org) and Hindi > (https://hi.wikipedia.org). > > The demand on the local server wouldn't be huge, given the relatively > small footprint at the school. Storage is cheap. This would be an > offline copy for one-way consumption, so I'm not looking for ways to > do local edits, and push these back upstream. I'd imagine the > Wikipedia dumps can be rsync'd once every x months over sneakernet. > Dump data is here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps
When I was in Nepal we cloned Wiktionary onto the school server, and I imagine the process is similar for wikipedia. The way we did it was: Install mediawiki and configure it the same way that the "real" version is configured: http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/ Install the same plugins that are running on the real version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version Then import the db http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html Then make a few local tweaks (e.g. disable registration/editing) Daniel _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
