On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Aryeh Gregor <simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com<simetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com> > wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Chengbin Zheng<chengbinzh...@gmail.com> > 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 here, I suspect this will be a difficult process > for you. Even if you had experience installing and administering web > apps, I don't know how reliably the dumps can be imported by third > parties these days. If you're talking about the English Wikipedia, it > would probably take a lot of processing time (maybe days, on a typical > desktop?) for the dump to actually import, even if it's only the > latest version of each page. And even after that, I don't know how > easy or reliable it is to export static HTML. > > You will definitely, at a minimum, have to use a command line, and > probably will run into at least one difficulty that will require > debugging. MediaWiki is not really designed to be installed and > administered by users who are only comfortable with GUIs. You could > probably install it without too much difficulty, but the documentation > for importing the dumps and exporting the static HTML might not be too > comprehensible. > > If you still want to proceed, this page has lengthy instructions on > installation: > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Windows > > I haven't imported a dump anywhere in a long time, and I've never > exported static HTML, so I can't really help you with those offhand. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > Thank you for your answer. Yes, I think it is probably a bad idea. Maybe when I take the computer science course this year I'll get a better understanding. But definitely, I don't like using command lines. Even in video encoding, which I master at, I prefer using GUI (well simply because it is FAR FAR more convenient). Even though I could use command line, it takes forever. It took me over a year to master x264 and avisynth. Don't want to do that again for this. I guess I can just hope that the static HTML dumps do update. Meanwhile I need to look for a way to efficiently delete millions of talk and discussion files. Or better, Wikimedia making a "lite" version like the dumps so I don't have to do it. I'm really tight on space, as I'm putting this on a portable media player (the next Archos PMP, as the Archos 5 I have only have 250GB) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
