On mar, 2003-02-04 at 17:38, Modemac wrote:
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 01:22:04 +0100 (CET), Chuck Smith:
I'm not some little jerk, but I think it would be cool to have a copy of the Wikipedia on my hard drive. Is there a place where I can download just the text (without all the older versions, etc.) ?
There's a section especially for downloading a gzipped archive of Wikipedia at: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3ADatabase_download
Chuck, the "cur" SQL dumps linked above is the core of what you want -- they contain just the current revisions of all articles in each language. But, they're in the format of giant SQL statements that shove all the data back into a database...
If you want it split into casually-accessible text files, a relatively simple filter could be made to do that. If this would be useful, let me know and I'll try to whip one up.
A while ago we had someone around the lists who had set up a conversion to HTML files that could be stored on a disk and looked at in a browser. I don't remember what became of that; check the archives...
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)