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)