Hi! I have a couple quick questions that I couldn't really find the answer to anywhere online. I'm trying to find the best way to have my local copy of en-wiki be able to have images.
1. The image tarball from your.org for en-wiki ( http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/wikimedia/imagedumps/tarballs/fulls/20121201/) is *around 2 terrabytes total!* Thats way too big for me. 2. I'm also considering using *Wikix*, but I couldn't find any recent references to the size of images that would download (everything i found was <2008) 3. And lastly, I'm wondering if there is a way to turn a .ZIM file back into database format to be able to import into mysql (I'm currently running WAMP server solution).
The big thing here is I *do not need all of the text of en-wiki* (hence, the .zim consideration) *NOR all of the images*. I want to do this in the most economical way possible. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Hi Sanjay
On 12/20/2012 10:31 PM, Sanjay Bappudi wrote:
I have a couple quick questions that I couldn't really find the answer to anywhere online. I'm trying to find the best way to have my local copy of en-wiki be able to have images.
This i not easily feasible because all the images of wpen together make a huge amount of data.
- The image tarball from your.org http://your.org for en-wiki (http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/wikimedia/imagedumps/tarballs/fulls/20121201/) is *around 2 terrabytes total!* Thats way too big for me.
Yes...
- I'm also considering using *Wikix*, but I couldn't find any recent references to the size of images that would download (everything i found was <2008)
Do you mean Kiwix?
- And lastly, I'm wondering if there is a way to turn a .ZIM file back into database format to be able to import into mysql (I'm currently running WAMP server solution).
No, because the mediawiki database contains wiki text and the ZIM file contains HTML code.
But you may use kiwix-serve which is an HTTP server for ZIM files. http://www.kiwix.org/index.php/Kiwix-serve
Regards Emmanuel