Marco Schuster wrote:
David Gerard schrieb:
If you're just caching a regular snapshot, what's wrong with the database dumps which are created specifically to make a regular snapshot available?
the ones for the big wikis (en,de) need REALLY good machines to import (good ram, enough disk...) and even with good machines they need ages to import :-(
Would the static HTML dumps work for your purposes? They are just HTML files, available in compressed archives per-language: http://static.wikipedia.org/
Note that if you plan to use them for mirroring (as opposed to, say, research), you will need to modify them so that they don't present themselves as being Wikipedia, or otherwise misuse the Wikimedia trademarks.
(Incidentally, the link is to the November 2006 dump, but the log says that the December 2006 dump finished; could somebody update that?)
-Mark