On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 06:38:03PM -0600, Ian wrote:
Much more pratical would be a mirroring system. Bomis could continue to do the main wikipedia.com where updates would take place and the authoritative version would reside, and mirrors could automatically download new versions of pages. There could be more then one tier of mirrors to lift even more bandwidth and CPU time (which appears to be a bigger problem) off of Bomis.
The mirrors could wouldn't have to use php-wikipedia, they could just have static pages (though they could have edit this links, which would take you to wikipedia.com).
Granted, I don't have the time to put the code where my moulth is.
The existing PHP code will be useless in generating a static site suitable for mirroring.
Well, I do have the wt2txt utility, which will convert articles into DocBook XML, which is easily publishable in many formats including PDF, PostScript, text, and good old html.
Sime I'm already working on very much the same problem, there's no need for you to duplicate work. My code is all under the GPL. So if any programmers want to help with this, talk to me.