On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Aryeh Gregor <simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com<simetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com> > wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Chengbin Zheng<chengbinzh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Wouldn't parsing it be faster than actually creating that many HTMLs? > > Parsing it *is* creating the HTML files. That's what "parsing" means > in MediaWiki, converting wikitext to HTML. It's kind of a misnomer, > admittedly. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > No, I know what parsing means. Even if it takes 2 days to parse them, wouldn't it be faster than to actually create a static HTML dump the traditional way? If it is not, then what is the difficulty of making static HTML dumps? It can't be bandwidth, storage, or speed. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
