Hi!
MediaWiki is famous because its almost supported in all languages that's something other wiki software don't have, lets not try to remove that. So I think the main bundle should be mediawiki with *all* languages.
But a other option is to add a second download option where people can download mediawiki with only EN and make tarballs for all languages available so people can add the languages they want. Maybe something that can be done on a mirror site.
Huib
2010/12/6 Soxred93 soxred93@gmail.com
On Dec 6, 2010, at 5:12 AM, Niklas Laxström wrote:
On 6 December 2010 08:11, Q overlordq@gmail.com wrote:
I think better time would be spent decoupling all the languages. Out the 57 megs for an svn export, 41 is the languages directory. Distribute the Big $foo, where $foo is some reasonable number of major languages, and offer the rest as a seperate dl.
Perhaps an option would be to remove them from phase3, and moving them to a separate directory. Then, if someone switches the wiki language to some obscure language, or does &uselang=dfdjdkgj, or other activity that needs an obscure language, it would run a one-time download to the local filesystem. Might be too slow, but it's only a 1 time download.
Just an idea.
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