On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Chengbin Zheng<chengbinzh...@gmail.com> wrote: ... > > Yes, the "TombRaider" version is exactly the version I want for static > HTML. > > Just curious, is > pages-articles.xml.bz2<http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20090713/enwiki-20090713-pages-articles.xml.bz2> > like > a "TombRaider" version? If not, what's the difference? > > And another curiosity, at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TomeRaider_database, it says the > English Wikipedia database is only 3.3GB. Did they use compression? That > seems awfully small. Even if they did, that's an incredible compression > ratio, similar to 7-zip, I don't know how you can do that on a eBook format. > NTFS compression only brings size down 50%.
At a point, Brion compressed it to 242 MB. http://www.mail-archive.com/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg00358.html You may also read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_compression -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
