Marco Schuster wrote:
David Gerard schrieb:
If you're just caching a regular snapshot,
what's wrong with the
database dumps which are created specifically to make a regular
snapshot available?
the ones for the big wikis (en,de) need REALLY good machines to import
(good ram, enough disk...) and even with good machines they need ages to
import :-(
Would the static HTML dumps work for your purposes? They are just HTML
files, available in compressed archives per-language:
http://static.wikipedia.org/
Note that if you plan to use them for mirroring (as opposed to, say,
research), you will need to modify them so that they don't present
themselves as being Wikipedia, or otherwise misuse the Wikimedia trademarks.
(Incidentally, the link is to the November 2006 dump, but the log says
that the December 2006 dump finished; could somebody update that?)
-Mark