On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 05:16:37PM +0100, Axel Boldt wrote:
David brought up the idea of publishing some Wikipedia documents as part of the Linux Documentation Project. That reminded me of an old idea: publish a snapshot of the Wikipedia as a downloadable set of static HTML pages that people can use without a net connection, and that could also be burned on CD. No wiki.cgi script needed. If someone clicks on an edit link or RecentChanges, they are directed to the corresponding life Wikipedia page.
No, let me be clear. I am going to distribute portions of Wikipedia along with LDP documents. The wikipedia documents will be Wikipedia documents, not part of the LDP. In fact, I am thinking about having a live link directly to "edit this page" so all readers can edit the documentation. Just bundling Wikipedia content into the LDP would be somehow rude.
Imagine having a live dictionary about Linux at your disposal, complete with HOWTOs. It's such a cool project.
By the way, it would be nice if the wikipedia tarballs could be updated, to encourage experimentation like this.
Yes yes, please. Although perhaps rsync would be more efficient for those of us who will want periodic automated updates.