[Wikitech-l] What happened to static Wikipedia page?

2009-10-13 Thread Chengbin Zheng
The page is blank. What happened to http://static.wikipedia.org/? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Any news to update static HTML Wikipedia?

2009-09-02 Thread Chengbin Zheng
also flexible enough to store other works than > only > data from Wikipedia/MediaWiki. Then it tries to keep the reader application > as simple and stupid as possible. There is only uncompression and HTML > rendering to be done while a HTML renderer should be available on nea

Re: [Wikitech-l] Any news to update static HTML Wikipedia?

2009-09-02 Thread Chengbin Zheng
you use the pure HTML dumps but the > ZIM > files for your Archos, because that's what they are meant for. > A ZIM file containing all german Wikipedia articles (>900,000) is 1,4 GB, > an > additional full text search index takes another 1 GB. > > Greets, > > &

Re: [Wikitech-l] Any news to update static HTML Wikipedia?

2009-09-02 Thread Chengbin Zheng
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Platonides wrote: > Chengbin Zheng wrote: > > I bring this old issue up because I want to know if (or if not) progress > (or > > plans) are made to update the static HTML version of Wikipedia. > > B&H photos just leaked the next g

[Wikitech-l] Any news to update static HTML Wikipedia?

2009-09-01 Thread Chengbin Zheng
I bring this old issue up because I want to know if (or if not) progress (or plans) are made to update the static HTML version of Wikipedia. B&H photos just leaked the next generation of Archos portable media players. Unbelievably, the rumors of a 500GB version is true! This is already tempting (es

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple way to convert XML to HTML

2009-07-26 Thread Chengbin Zheng
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 8:51 PM, K. Peachey wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Chengbin Zheng > wrote: > > Anyone know how long it takes to create a static HTML dump? A month? > > ___ > > Wikitech-l mailing list >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple way to convert XML to HTML

2009-07-26 Thread Chengbin Zheng
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Andrew Dunbar wrote: > 2009/7/26 Andrew Garrett : > > > > On 21/07/2009, at 6:48 PM, Daniel Schwen wrote: > > > wouldn't it be faster than to actually create a static HTML dump the > traditional way? > >>> The content is wiki-text. It has to be parsed to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple way to convert XML to HTML

2009-07-22 Thread Chengbin Zheng
not Brion, and as far as I can tell, > Gregory Maxwell said his compression procedure was broken (i.e., > inadvertently lossy). > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Chengbin Zheng > wrote: > > I have no doubt that you can compress it to 3.3GB. I'm just curious how > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple way to convert XML to HTML

2009-07-22 Thread Chengbin Zheng
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Tei wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Chengbin Zheng > wrote: > ... > > > > Yes, the "TombRaider" version is exactly the version I want for static > > HTML. > > > > Just curious, is > > pages-a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple way to convert XML to HTML

2009-07-22 Thread Chengbin Zheng
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Dmitriy Sintsov wrote: > * Tei [Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:42:45 +0200]: > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Chengbin > Zheng > > wrote: > > ... > > > > > > No, I know what parsing means. Even if it takes 2 days to parse &

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple way to convert XML to HTML

2009-07-21 Thread Chengbin Zheng
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Chengbin Zheng wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Chad wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Tei wrote: >> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Chengbin Zheng >> wrote: >> > ... >> >> >>

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple way to convert XML to HTML

2009-07-21 Thread Chengbin Zheng
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Chad wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Tei wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Chengbin Zheng > wrote: > > ... > >> > >> No, I know what parsing means. Even if it takes 2 days to parse them, > >> wo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple way to convert XML to HTML

2009-07-21 Thread Chengbin Zheng
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Aryeh Gregor > wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Chengbin Zheng > wrote: > > Wouldn't parsing it be faster than actually creating that many HTMLs? > > Parsing it *is* creating the HTML files. That's what "parsi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple way to convert XML to HTML

2009-07-21 Thread Chengbin Zheng
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Aryeh Gregor < simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com > wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Chengbin Zheng > wrote: > > On a side note, if parsing the XML gets you the static HTML version of > > Wikipedia, why can't Wikimedia just pars

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple way to convert XML to HTML

2009-07-21 Thread Chengbin Zheng
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Chengbin Zheng wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Lane, Ryan > wrote: > >> > Actually, I do have to learn everything. I know absolutely >> > nothing about >> > HTML and all the stuff (Maybe I will when I tak

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple way to convert XML to HTML

2009-07-21 Thread Chengbin Zheng
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Lane, Ryan wrote: > > Actually, I do have to learn everything. I know absolutely > > nothing about > > HTML and all the stuff (Maybe I will when I take the computer > > science course > > in grade 10). Think of it this way, you have a radioactive > > material decay

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple way to convert XML to HTML

2009-07-21 Thread Chengbin Zheng
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Kwan Ting Chan wrote: > Chengbin Zheng wrote: > >> >> Thank you for dropping by and sharing this information with us Tomasz! >> >> It is good just knowing that it is in the queue. Have you considered >> making >> a ve

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple way to convert XML to HTML

2009-07-20 Thread Chengbin Zheng
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Tomasz Finc wrote: > Chengbin Zheng wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Aryeh Gregor > > < > simetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com > > >> wrote: > > > >> . . . I should mention, also, that I believe the one in ch

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple way to convert XML to HTML

2009-07-20 Thread Chengbin Zheng
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Aryeh Gregor > wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Chengbin Zheng > wrote: > > I tried through Wikipedia mail, and I can't reach him. > > > > How do you use mediawiki? There are no exe files. > > Based on your posts he

Re: [Wikitech-l] Simple way to convert XML to HTML

2009-07-20 Thread Chengbin Zheng
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Aryeh Gregor > wrote: > . . . I should mention, also, that I believe the one in charge of > dumps is Tomasz Finc. You may want to ask him about whether there are > plans to resume the static HTML dumps. > > ___ > Wikite

[Wikitech-l] Simple way to convert XML to HTML

2009-07-20 Thread Chengbin Zheng
It seems that reply doesn't work. So I'll send a new message. Since the static HTML Wikipedia is not updating (please update), and XML updates like everyday, the logical choice is to go with XML. Is there any way to convert XML to HTML, like the static HTML version? I need it in HTML, and I don't w

Re: [Wikitech-l] Convert XML to HTML?

2009-07-19 Thread Chengbin Zheng
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 5:30 AM, Alexandre Dulaunoy wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 5:23 AM, Chengbin Zheng > wrote: > > Since the static HTML Wikipedia is not updating (please update), and XML > > updates like everyday, the logical choice is to go with XML. Is there any >

[Wikitech-l] Convert XML to HTML?

2009-07-18 Thread Chengbin Zheng
Since the static HTML Wikipedia is not updating (please update), and XML updates like everyday, the logical choice is to go with XML. Is there any way to convert XML to HTML, like the static HTML version? I need it in HTML, and I don't want a one year old version of Wikipedia, with all the useless