The HTML static dumps are incredibly useful, since they are the easiest form of Wikipedia to use offline - rendering the XML files is very difficult, since there is not even a good Wikitext specification available. I have been experimenting a lot with different ways of viewing content offline - hugely useful in countries like Indonesia, where internet access is hard to come by...
However, the static dumps have not been updated since December! It even says on the page that the December dumps are still in progress - which they are not! They are finished and all exist on the page (which I pointed out several months ago).
So we _really_really_ need updated static HTML dumps of all the Wikipedias. And I also really want stripped down HTML dumps of the English, that doesn't include user pages and discussion pages.
I'd really like an update on this!
Stian
Page really says that, but check http://static.wikipedia.org/downloads/ there is dump from April 2007
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Stian Haklev" shaklev@gmail.com To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 10:40 AM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Updated HTML static dumps? Please?
The HTML static dumps are incredibly useful, since they are the easiest
form
of Wikipedia to use offline - rendering the XML files is very difficult, since there is not even a good Wikitext specification available. I have
been
experimenting a lot with different ways of viewing content offline -
hugely
useful in countries like Indonesia, where internet access is hard to come by...
However, the static dumps have not been updated since December! It even
says
on the page that the December dumps are still in progress - which they are not! They are finished and all exist on the page (which I pointed out several months ago).
So we _really_really_ need updated static HTML dumps of all the
Wikipedias.
And I also really want stripped down HTML dumps of the English, that
doesn't
include user pages and discussion pages.
I'd really like an update on this!
Stian
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They don't seem to be finished, at least en is not (no dump, just indexes).
wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org schrieb am 01.05.2007 10:57:48:
Page really says that, but check http://static.wikipedia.org/downloads/ there is dump from April 2007
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christoph.huesler@css.ch wrote:
They don't seem to be finished, at least en is not (no dump, just indexes).
wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org schrieb am 01.05.2007 10:57:48:
Page really says that, but check http://static.wikipedia.org/downloads/ there is dump from April 2007
I've made the index page dynamic so that it will automatically be updated when new dumps are made, and I've added generation of split archives to the scripts. The split archives for en for the April 2007 edition should be done in a few hours.
-- Tim Starling
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So we _really_really_ need updated static HTML dumps of all the Wikipedias. And I also really want stripped down HTML dumps of the English, that doesn't include user pages and discussion pages.
Yes, that would be great..not for en.wiki only but for all wikis...
Mohamed
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