-----Original Message----- From: wikitech-l-bounces@wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l- bounces@wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Simetrical Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 5:37 PM To: Wikimedia developers Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Apple's Wiki Server brings WYSIWYG to wiki
... 12x larger ...
Out of curiosity, where'd you get that figure? Recall that we aren't talking about the page output, just an XMLized wikimarkup (so something like <wm:a href="link">display</wm:a> instead of [[link|display]]).
Experiments with page output, actually, for the full Simple English Wikipedia... My experiments also showed compressed HTML for the full page output to be roughly 3x larger than compressed wikitext. That is full page output, so the point is probably lost somewhat - but considering that the full output should be *more* repetitive than the XML-ized markup, I'd still be surprised if the database didn't double in size, at a minimum. Anyone care to run the full database through a conversion to XML and run the experiments? I'm a little short on time lately.
- Eric Astor