On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, PROJATA wrote:
Hi,
I use program : webstripper. This program can download site from internet. I'm student and I want download sites with mathematic.
I tray download http://pl.wikipedia.org with program Webstripper.
Please do *not* use programs such as Webstripper. Especially on dynamic sites like Wikipedia, they create a huge amount of load on the servers by downloading thousands upon thousands of pages extremely rapidly. One person with one of these programs takes up the equivalent resources of hundreds or even thousands of other users.
Can you imagine if everyone did this? The whole web would collapse, because no server could stand up to the load of everybody in the world requesting thousands and thousands of pages at once.
It's like automatically telephoning everyone in the city because you wanted to call your friend and your sister, and the fact that those two people will pick up the phone (along with everybody else!) saves you the trouble of dialing twice.
Webstripper is banned at Wikipedia. Don't use it. If you've been using it, you've probably also hit the request throttle limit and will be briefly blocked from using the site at all, but this is temporary. (Though if you create a particularly unpleasant amount of server load your IP may be permanently blocked.)
Use a web browser like everybody else, and please stop attacking the web sites that you enjoy.
If you really want the entire wiki, you can download database backups at http://download.wikipedia.org/ , however you'll need some knowledge of using databases to get any use out of them.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)