Hello all, a new static HTML dump can be found in:
http://www/~puglisi/wiki/wikipedia/ma/main_page.html
The script used for this is not downloadable yet, but it will be soon. Many errors with wikipedia markup, redirects, etc. are fixed. Search sorta works with IE and Mozilla.
What to do now:
- images are not included, but linked to the online site (each image is represented as a link). This is a stopgap solution, but I don't have many ideas about this :-)
- search is done with word indexes (only for page titles), and is acceptably fast on IE and a bit slower on Mozilla. Still does not work on Opera, and still limited to only one word to search for, but already usable :-)
- according to Nero, this dump fits into a 660 CD-Rom, so it's quite burnable :-)
So now that the technicalities are being resolved, it's time for politics to enter the issue: namely, what we'll do with this version? CD distribution? HTML mirrors? what else?
New version planned to fix some of the problems listed above. Stay tuned :-)
Ciao, Alfio
Alfio Puglisi puglisi@arcetri.astro.it wrote in news:Pine.SOL.4.31.0306091421490.4480-100000@hercules:
Hello all, a new static HTML dump can be found in:
Strange URL.
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So now that the technicalities are being resolved, it's time for politics to enter the issue: namely, what we'll do with this version? CD distribution? HTML mirrors? what else?
What would be usefull is a read-only wikipedia version for * WAP users * I-mode * Blind people - I have recieved feedback from blind users that the curent real wikipedia is not very easy to use for blind people.
* Put Wikipedia on FreeNet http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet
Not many users would use the FreeNet Wikipedia edition, but it can give some publicity. It would be a nice support for the FreeNet community. Wikipedia would be the most famous website the has been ported to FreeNet.
* Setting up a central page for the organisation of the Wikipedia mirrors and create a pollicy to get and keep the label "Official Wikipedia Stattic Mirror"
Walter(*)
(*) formaly known as Giskart
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Walter wrote:
Strange URL.
Ooops, here is the correct one for the world outside the LAN:
http://www.arcetri.astro.it/~puglisi/wiki/wikipedia/ma/main_page.html
Ciao, Alfio
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