On 10/03/11 7:13 PM, Arthur Richards wrote:
You're likely correct - also I've recently been exposed to the 'wikipedia offline patch' extension (http://code.google.com/p/wikipedia-offline-patch/) which I believe allows you to use a compressed dump as your db stroage - saving you the pain/space of uncompressing a dump file. Probably worth a look.
Arthur
Having invented myself the same wheel years ago, I would be very surprised if the couple of branches used on its select was able to fill all queries. And no, ttsiod approach won't be able to reach all articles.