I thought it did. I wrote: "There are a number of known bugs, also it is likely that these dumps do not fully satisfy the license requirements of the GFDL. Also, note that putting one of these dumps on the web unmodified will constitute a trademark violation. They are intended for private viewing in an intranet or desktop installation."

I like it, but I think that you should make some sort of convention for redlinks. Seeing as there's no page there, it should link to a generic 'nothing here' page or something of the sort.

"Tim Starling" <t.starling(a)physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote in message news:dir0g4$47q$1@sea.gmane.org... Looking good so far. Congratulations. Would this include the "syntax error" which is all that IE will grudgingly divulge as an explanation why the little yellow triangle appears? Is there a Wiki page for this somewhere? I'd like to keep track of progress...

Tim Starling schreef: It is very nice. But I do not see any reason to include the talk page.

Tim Starling wrote: I agree with you completely. Many users will want to see the talk pages. However, as a potential user of this, I find the 27GB size a bit daunting. I have, at this moment, 8GB free space on my laptop. I wonder how much work it would be for you to generate a few different versions... Complete (current version) Complete, no images Minimum (no talk pages, no images) A really cool thing to have would be some kind of cleverly constructed "middle" version -- some images, but not all the images -- but I can't at the moment think of any clever way to decide algorithmically which images to include. Maybe exclude images over a certain size, or include a maximum of one image per article or similar?

On 10/20/05, Alphax <alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote: I suppose its the same issue for the wikitext itself, but keep in mind the need to offer a copy in the preferred form for editing. I'm not a huge fan of html dumps in general. Wikitext tends to be much smaller (even compressed), and if you're doing to do fancy compression stuff you'll need to include a reader which makes me wonder why not a full wikitext viewer.