Hey, sorry to keep bugging you all, but I think I've missed like a few months worth of messages here and I'm trying to catch up. Anyway, is there any mirror site for Wikipedia where you can just read the Wikipedia? Basically, I want a place to go where I can read the Wikipedia when the server is sloooooooooooooooooooow. If not, it might be a good idea to set one up. Perhaps http://www.wikipedia-imitation.org/ ? ;-)
Thanks, Chuck
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Chuck Smith wrote:
Hey, sorry to keep bugging you all, but I think I've missed like a few months worth of messages here and I'm trying to catch up. Anyway, is there any mirror site for Wikipedia where you can just read the Wikipedia? Basically, I want a place to go where I can read the Wikipedia when the server is sloooooooooooooooooooow. If not, it might be a good idea to set one up. Perhaps http://www.wikipedia-imitation.org/ ? ;-)
Thanks, Chuck
http://download.wikipedia.org/wikipedia-standalone_en_20031022.tar.bz2
experimental offline version of the English Wikipedia, text only.
Walter
--- Chuck Smith msochuck@yahoo.com wrote:
Hey, sorry to keep bugging you all, but I think I've missed like a few months worth of messages here and I'm trying to catch up. Anyway, is there any mirror site for Wikipedia where you can just read the Wikipedia? Basically, I want a place to go where I can read the Wikipedia when the server is sloooooooooooooooooooow. If not, it might be a good idea to set one up. Perhaps http://www.wikipedia-imitation.org/ ? ;-)
Thanks, Chuck
There are several mirror sites for Wikipedia but they are all hopelessly out of date. There's the legal nationmaster.com, the semi-legal 4reference.com, and the illegal typeencyclopedia.com. I am trying to write something in Python that works as just a Wikipedia reader from the database (so it can be updated more frequently), either on your computer or over the internet. Several other people are working on client software, too. Theirs are much further along, but I don't think any of them have the goal of creating wikipedia mirror software. LDan
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--- Daniel Ehrenberg littledanehren@yahoo.com wrote:
--- Chuck Smith msochuck@yahoo.com wrote:
Hey, sorry to keep bugging you all, but I think
I've
missed like a few months worth of messages here
and
I'm trying to catch up. Anyway, is there any
mirror
site for Wikipedia where you can just read the Wikipedia? Basically, I want a place to go where
I
can read the Wikipedia when the server is sloooooooooooooooooooow. If not, it might be a
good
idea to set one up. Perhaps http://www.wikipedia-imitation.org/ ? ;-)
Thanks, Chuck
There are several mirror sites for Wikipedia but they are all hopelessly out of date. There's the legal nationmaster.com, the semi-legal 4reference.com, and the illegal typeencyclopedia.com. I am trying to write something in Python that works as just a Wikipedia reader from the database (so it can be updated more frequently), either on your computer or over the internet. Several other people are working on client software, too. Theirs are much further along, but I don't think any of them have the goal of creating wikipedia mirror software. LDan
Oops, I hadn't read that tinyweb mail when I sent this. I can't get it to run, though. LDan
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Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
Oops, I hadn't read that tinyweb mail when I sent this. I can't get it to run, though.
Is it the tinyweb server that's not running, or the waikiki program itself? If you go command line at www\cgi-bin, and type Waikiki.exe -title="A" it should give you the HTML of the "A" article.
If that works, you can skip the tinyweb server and use apache, which is recommended for mirror sites anyway :-)
Magnus
Chuck Smith wrote:
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Wikipedia? Basically, I want a place to go where I can read the Wikipedia when the server is sloooooooooooooooooooow. If not, it might be a good idea to set one up. Perhaps http://www.wikipedia-imitation.org/ ? ;-)
Thanks, Chuck
A official program to setup wikipedia mirrors would be nice. So that anybody can setup a read-only mirror of a wikipedia and become a official mirror when the follow some rules. The "edit this page" can point to the root-wikipedia, the real wikipedia.
It can spread the traffic and the expense of it for Wikimedia. And be faster also.
Walter
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