Some people are trying to «printing all of Wikipedia onto 6-inch nickel discs [...] 270 discs, each about 1mm thick». https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29&oldid=523529852#Nanoscale_printing_of_Wikipedia They "only" need all the articles in raster image format, they say. I think their safest bet would be to take an HTML/ZIM dump and then use one of the many tools like http://khtml2png.sourceforge.net/ to get a PNG or other image format, but it would be nice if some of you could give some better informed advice.
Nemo
Thank for this news Nemo. Here my answer on the village pump:
I can do that and everything is already there. I used to deal with whole dumps of Wikipedia to generate ZIM files for [http://www.kiwix.org Kiwix]. Here, as example, a [http://tmp.kiwix.org/wikipedia_kowiki.html.png demo file of the "Wikipedia" article in Korean]. Unfortunately, I do not own the hardware necessary to do it for the whole Wikipedia in English (but no problem for the others). ~~~~
FYI, I have used the "gnome-web-photo" tool.
Regards Emmanuel
Le 17/11/2012 19:28, Federico Leva (Nemo) a écrit :
Some people are trying to «printing all of Wikipedia onto 6-inch nickel discs [...] 270 discs, each about 1mm thick». https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29&oldid=523529852#Nanoscale_printing_of_Wikipedia
They "only" need all the articles in raster image format, they say. I think their safest bet would be to take an HTML/ZIM dump and then use one of the many tools like http://khtml2png.sourceforge.net/ to get a PNG or other image format, but it would be nice if some of you could give some better informed advice.
Nemo
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Emmanuel Engelhart, 17/11/2012 21:04:
Thank for this news Nemo. Here my answer on the village pump:
I can do that and everything is already there. I used to deal with whole dumps of Wikipedia to generate ZIM files for [http://www.kiwix.org Kiwix]. Here, as example, a [http://tmp.kiwix.org/wikipedia_kowiki.html.png demo file of the "Wikipedia" article in Korean]. Unfortunately, I do not own the hardware necessary to do it for the whole Wikipedia in English (but no problem for the others). ~~~~
FYI, I have used the "gnome-web-photo" tool.
Thank you for answering! Amazing as usual. (Would it also exclude navigational templates for en.wiki? I don't even remember if they use noprint.) They have replied you, by the way.
What hardware are you missing? Unless it would require several TB, being a temporary thing you could ask a Labs instance http://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/ (or maybe Amazon is easier, if they pay for it).
Nemo
Le 18/11/2012 12:15, Federico Leva (Nemo) a écrit :
Emmanuel Engelhart, 17/11/2012 21:04:
Thank for this news Nemo. Here my answer on the village pump:
I can do that and everything is already there. I used to deal with whole dumps of Wikipedia to generate ZIM files for [http://www.kiwix.org Kiwix]. Here, as example, a [http://tmp.kiwix.org/wikipedia_kowiki.html.png demo file of the "Wikipedia" article in Korean]. Unfortunately, I do not own the hardware necessary to do it for the whole Wikipedia in English (but no problem for the others). ~~~~
FYI, I have used the "gnome-web-photo" tool.
Thank you for answering! Amazing as usual. (Would it also exclude navigational templates for en.wiki? I don't even remember if they use noprint.) They have replied you, by the way.
This is exactly a copy of what your browser renders. So "noprint" templates are there, but this is something pretty easy to fix.
What hardware are you missing? Unless it would require several TB, being a temporary thing you could ask a Labs instance http://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/ (or maybe Amazon is easier, if they pay for it).
I do not have enough mass storage to store all the pictures used by WPEN. I guess we will need something around 10TB to do it. Not sure the labconsole can easily provide so much data storage for now... but this is a detail; we need first to setup the project.
Emmanuel
Emmanuel Engelhart, 18/11/2012 14:01:
This is exactly a copy of what your browser renders. So "noprint" templates are there, but this is something pretty easy to fix.
Ok!
What hardware are you missing? Unless it would require several TB, being a temporary thing you could ask a Labs instance http://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/ (or maybe Amazon is easier, if they pay for it).
I do not have enough mass storage to store all the pictures used by WPEN. I guess we will need something around 10TB to do it. Not sure the labconsole can easily provide so much data storage for now... but this is a detail; we need first to setup the project.
They have 14 TB in total and 13 free (with no big increases in usage); 10 is not little but could still be an option. True, this is a detail and you know how to address it anyway; I hope they agree a call/IRC meeting with you to arrange everything!
Nemo