* Tei <oscar.vi...@gmail.com> [Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:42:45 +0200]: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Chengbin Zheng<chengbinzh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > ... > > > > 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. > > > > WikiMedia work with limited resources on manpower, hardware, etc..etc... > > Things are done. When? when theres available resources, humans and of > the other types. > Is not only you, there are lots of people that want to download the > wikipedia (sometimes in a periodic fashion) > > There are a log somewhere with the daily work of some wikipedia admin. ( > - : > http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Server_admin_log > > Some of these are even very fun, like in: > 02:11 b****: CPAN sux > 01:47 d******: I FOUND HOW TO REVIVE APACHES > ( names obscured to protect the inocents ). > Speaking of compact off-line English Wikipedia I liked the TomeRaider version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TomeRaider I wish there were newer TR builds, because English Wikipedia grows really fast. Dmitriy
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