On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Luis Alberto Zarrabeitia Gomez kyrie@uh.cu wrote:
Until yesterday, I thought that Wikipedia's static dumps were generated with the maintenance/dumpHTML.{php,ini} scripts. But the page http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers currently reads: "This has been used (years ago) to create the static dumps at http://static.wikipedia.org".
So, what is the method currently used to generate the dumps? I need to dump a wiki for offline use, and I'd like to be as compatible as possible.
(I'd also like to dump the math equations and other extensions I have installed, so I thought staying as close as possible to mediawiki would be the way to go).
-- Luis Zarrabeitia Facultad de Matemática y Computación, UH http://profesores.matcom.uh.cu/~kyrie
I believe currently they are being held together by a [[Rube Goldberg machine]] of every little peice imaginable (inculding the souls of the developers) although after the rewrite that is planned it should be a lot more documented and easier to follow.