On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Chengbin Zheng <chengbinzh...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Lane, Ryan <ryan.l...@ocean.navo.navy.mil > > 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 >> > problem, where you want to find out how much mass is left >> > after 1000 years. >> > Obviously there is no simple algebraic way of doing it. You >> > must set up a >> > differential equation and solve it. There is no way to do it >> > if your math >> > skills are only basic algebra. This is me, and I have to learn all of >> > advanced algebra, functions, trigonmetry, calculus, and differential >> > equation to do it. >> >> If you were able to do x264 from the commandline, this will be a walk in >> the >> park. I've been using the commandline for years and I *much* prefer to use >> a >> GUI to do x264 transcoding. >> >> Using the html exporter from the commandline is fairly simple, and it is >> documented on the extension page: >> >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DumpHTML >> >> V/r, >> >> Ryan Lane >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > > I have no idea on how to install MediaWiki. This is too difficult and > troublesome. Considering how much pain it is to use x264 from command line, > I probably don't want to try this. Truthfully there is not much to x264 in > command line. But the programs I'm seeing here is, well, complicated, to say > the least. I'm just gonna wait for Wikimedia to update the static HTML, or > bother my computer science teacher, LOL. > On a side note, if parsing the XML gets you the static HTML version of Wikipedia, why can't Wikimedia just parse it for us and save a lot of our time (parsing and learning), and use that as the static HTML dump version? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
