On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:42:23 +0100, Kevin Clark wrote:
I've been tasked with building an offline copy of the Wikipedia website. The main goal is to have the database and images stored locally so that we can run a Wikipedia website on a local server. Our ultimate goal is to have Mediawiki and the Wikipedia database and images stored on a single hard drive in servers in schools in Zimbabwe where they have no Internet access.
They are people who do such things than many years. I'm one of them. What you try to achieve already exists IMO. Have a look to kiwix-serve to serve the Wikipedia 1.0 selection or Wikipedia for school selection/ZIMs. Why reinventig the wheel?
I'm also currently involved in a project which has for purpose to deliver Wikipedia offline in Zimbabwe (many thousands of DVDs).
Regards Emmanuel