On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Marcin Cieslak saper@saper.info wrote:
John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
http://download.wikimedia.org/dewiki/
Is there any problem with using them?
I think they are from June 2008.
Are they?
These are the database dumps. In order to get any HTML out of it, you need to set up either MediaWiki and/or a replacement parser; not to mention the delicate things enWP folks did with template magic, which requires setting up ParserFunctions - these might even depend on whatever version is currently running live. That's why static dumps (or ?action=render output) are the thing you need when you want to create offline versions or things like Mobipocket Wikipedia (which is my actual goal with the static dump).
Marco