On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:18:19 -0500, Stephen Forrest stephen.forrest@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 21:03:47 +0000, Theresa Knott theresaknott@gmail.com wrote:
A box should appear that says "Interenet Explorer will add this page to your favorites" There is a checkbox that says "make available offline". Ttick this box.
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Click next then go on to say how often you want to synchronise your offline pages with wikipedia.
But wouldn't a solution like this (which is incidentally IE-specific)
Well he did say he was using IE
only provide the articles in rendered (i.e. HTML) format?
Yes, but judging from what Robert had already tried (saving individual pages) I assumed that was what he wanted.
When downloading articles for editing, one would surely want the wiki plaintext, no? How does one get at that automatically, short of using a bot?
I don't think downloading large numbers of articles for editing is particularly sensible unless they are all very low volume, otherwise you'll get numerous edit conflicts. But in answer to your question, I suppose you could add each page in your watchlist to your favourites (it would take hours) but add
&action=edit
to the end of each URL. e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Theresa_knott&action=edit
Then you could synchronise your favourites for offline viewing and they'll all be in edit mode ready to go should you want to make any changes. I don't know if this would actually work mind you, i haven't actually tried it out!
Theresa