Je Mardo 20 Majo 2003 03:53, Alfio Puglisi skribis: Welcome! Cool! I don't think anyone's really actively working on this at the moment, so if you'd like to, that would be great. A few things to consider: Last year someone started on a static HTML dump system with a hacked-up version of the wiki code and some post-processing, but never quite finished it up. I don't think he posted the code, but if you can get ahold of him he may still have it available: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2002-November/001292.html There's also a partial, very experimental offline reader program which sucks the data out of the dump files. This includes a simplified wiki parser which, I believe, outputs HTML to use in the wxWindows HTML viewer widget: http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/WINOR This may be useful to you. The latest revisions of the wikipedia code can cache the HTML output pages, but it's not clear whether this would be easy to adapt for purposes of generating static output. A couple of the big questions that have come up before are: * filenames -- making sure they can stay within reasonable limits on common filesystems, keeping in mind that non-ascii characters and case-sensitivity may be handled differently on different OSs, and there may be stronger limits on filename lengths. * search -- an offline search would be very useful for an offline reader. JavaScript, Java, local programs are various possibilties. * size! with markup, header and footer text tacked onto every page, a static html dump can be very large. The English wiki could at this point approach or exceed the size of a CD-ROM without compression. Is there a way to get the data compressed and still let it be accessible to common web browsers accessing the filesystem directly? Less important for a mirror site than a CD, perhaps. * interlanguage links - it would be nice to be able to include all languages in a single browsable tree, with appropriate cross-links. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)