Until yesterday, I thought that Wikipedia's static dumps were generated with the maintenance/dumpHTML.{php,ini} scripts. But the page http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers currently reads: "This has been used (years ago) to create the static dumps at http://static.wikipedia.org".
So, what is the method currently used to generate the dumps? I need to dump a wiki for offline use, and I'd like to be as compatible as possible.
(I'd also like to dump the math equations and other extensions I have installed, so I thought staying as close as possible to mediawiki would be the way to go).
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Luis Alberto Zarrabeitia Gomez kyrie@uh.cu wrote:
Until yesterday, I thought that Wikipedia's static dumps were generated with the maintenance/dumpHTML.{php,ini} scripts. But the page http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers currently reads: "This has been used (years ago) to create the static dumps at http://static.wikipedia.org".
So, what is the method currently used to generate the dumps? I need to dump a wiki for offline use, and I'd like to be as compatible as possible.
(I'd also like to dump the math equations and other extensions I have installed, so I thought staying as close as possible to mediawiki would be the way to go).
-- Luis Zarrabeitia Facultad de Matemática y Computación, UH http://profesores.matcom.uh.cu/~kyrie
I believe currently they are being held together by a [[Rube Goldberg machine]] of every little peice imaginable (inculding the souls of the developers) although after the rewrite that is planned it should be a lot more documented and easier to follow.
Luis Alberto Zarrabeitia Gomez escribió:
Until yesterday, I thought that Wikipedia's static dumps were generated with the maintenance/dumpHTML.{php,ini} scripts. But the page http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers currently reads: "This has been used (years ago) to create the static dumps at http://static.wikipedia.org".
So, what is the method currently used to generate the dumps? I need to dump a wiki for offline use, and I'd like to be as compatible as possible.
(I'd also like to dump the math equations and other extensions I have installed, so I thought staying as close as possible to mediawiki would be the way to go).
Wow, that comment was addeed by me almost 3 years ago (7 May 2006) http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Alternative_parsers&diff=1807...
The way to create static dumps is in fact to use dumpHTML (now as its own extension). That comment meant 'they are no longer being generated, don't expect to get new static dumps there', not 'they now use a new system'. Sorry for the confusion.
Different ways for offline viewing a wiki: *Mediawiki (+PHP+Apache+Mysql) installed on usb drive *dumpHTML *http://www.kiwix.org/ *http://www.wiki-web.es/mediawiki-offline-reader/ *ZenoReader (http://wiki.directmedia.de/ZenoReader down?)
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