Moritz von Schweinitz wrote:
soi was wondering if anybody already tried to isolate whichever part of wikimedia actually 'renders' the 'cur' column of the database to HTML, and make a stand-alone app (or a perl module, or something) based on that in a way that re-uses the latest wikimedia code, so that any scripts that trry to create a static version of a wiki could easily be kept in sync with the lates mediawiki syntax.
Trying to create a separate program from scratch seems a bit silly, I'm not sure why people keep doing it over and over when it's fairly trivial to make a maintenance script for MediaWiki that runs the parser on each page and dumps the output.
Tim's started a script for this, it's in the maintenance directory in CVS. This is the development version of MediaWiki and is not directly usable yet on current page download dumps as the database format has changed.
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