On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Jens Frankjf@mormo.org wrote:
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 12:01:32AM +0500, Artyom Sokolov wrote:
One has task to make a local fully-functional mirror of Wikipedia sudomain (articles, images, etc. must be located on the local server). Currently there are not so many articles and downloading dump once a day may be an option. But there is a problem: how to synchronize changes made to the local copy back to the Wikipedia? Is there any piece of software that could help?
Don't do that. Synchronizing back is a very difficult task, and you will find yourself in deep trouble very soon. If you don't do proper replication conflict resolution, you'll have either junk on your side or on the Wikipedia side. In the later case, you'll probably get blocked rather soon, in the other case your users will get frustrated because their edits don't get through.
Regards,
jens
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Using dumps locally for an offline version is pretty easy to set up (download the right dump, import with either importDump or mwdumper).
Syncing changes back to the live site is a Very Bad Idea, like Jens said. There is absolutely no supported mechanism to do this (see bugs 2054 and 15468).
-Chad