Please, don't waste the time you have to start yet another barely working solution that no one will ever maintain.
Hi Renaud,
Thank you for your comments. For my part, I do not want to cause offence when I say that we've looked at Kiwix-serve and the OpenZIM format and feel that they do not meet our needs at this time.
I've no doubt that we've not thought through all the issues. But after a considerable effort I have an Offline Wikipedia site running on a server here, and it looks pretty close to the finished article. The template issue I reported might be icing on the cake but if it's easy to fix I might as well do it.
Our belief is that we can maintain the Offline Wikipedia by shipping a replacement hard drive containing the database and images. The user plugs it in, restarts MySQL, and hey presto! Okay, so that's overly simplistic - clearly the hard drive containing the data is the product of updating the images and re-importing the database but that's mostly CPU time, not human effort. Our main dependency is only that the database dumps and images are made available, and there's no sign of those being withdrawn any time soon.
Can anyone on this list give me some pointers as to how I might fix the template problem I reported?
Thanks,
Kevin