On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Tomasz Finc <tfinc(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Chengbin Zheng wrote:
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Aryeh Gregor
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wrote:
. . . I should mention, also, that I believe the
one in charge of
dumps is Tomasz Finc. You may want to ask him about whether there are
plans to resume the static HTML dumps.
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I tried through Wikipedia mail, and I can't reach him.
Looks like either my mail client ate them or those mails never arrived.
I've exchanged mails with Tim Starling(original author/maintainer) of
static.wikipedia.org to gauge the level of support and work required to
have these running again. It certainly seems doable but I'm not going to
commit to having them in place until the full en history snapshot works.
Thinking post Wikimania 2009 (end of August) here for specking the
return of these to a more maintainable state.
--tomasz
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Thank you for dropping by and sharing this information with us Tomasz!
It is good just knowing that it is in the queue. Have you considered making
a version of static HTML Wikipedia where there are no user talk and
discussion pages that eating up half the space (like the 5GB XML dump for
English Wikipedia)? As in the previous E-Mail, it is impossible to delete
millions of pages through Windows Vista's search function (I left it
overnight, and it ended up eating 1.3GB of RAM and maxing out one of my
cores. Even deleting a single file took minutes).