On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 4:36 AM, Daniel Drake <d...@laptop.org> wrote: > 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 > >
Thx, Daniel. Will work on things and get back. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
