On 8/15/07, Tim Starling
<tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
It would have been simpler
if he used the static HTML dump instead of the
XML. It's not hard to make a desktop reader out of it. I wrote a proof of
concept a while back.
Unless I'm reading your idea incorrectly, the static HTML dump seems
to be about 4 times as large and in 7zip format instead of bzip2.
It's 1.5 times larger than pages-meta-current.xml.bz2, which is the
equivalent XML dump, or 2.7 times larger than pages-articles.xml.bz2.