Hi all,

I have made a list of all the 1.9M articles in NS0 (including redirects / short pages) using the Toolserver; now I have the list I'm going to download every single of 'em (after the trial period tonight, I want to see how this works out. I'd like to begin with downloading the whole thing in 3 or 4 days, if noone objects) and then publish a static dump of it. Data collection will be on the Toolserver (/mnt/user-store/dewiki-static/articles/); the request rate will be 1 article per second and I'll download the new files once or twice a day to my home PC, so there should be no problem with the TS or Wikimedia server load. When this is finished in ~ 21-22 days, I'm going to compress them and upload them to my private server (well, if Wikimedia has an archive server, that 'd be better) as a tgz file so others can play with it. Furthermore, though I have no idea if I'll succeed, I plan on hacking a static Vector skin file which will load the articles using jQuery's excellent .load() feature, so that everyone with JS can enjoy a truly offline Wikipedia.

Marco

PS: When trying to invoke /w/index.php?action=render with an invalid oldid, the server returns HTTP/1.1 200 OK and an error message, but shouldn't this be a 404 or 500?