[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia in a box

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
Wed Aug 15 20:58:21 UTC 2007


On 8/15/07, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:
> > http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/13/1939231
>
> It would have been simpler if he used the static HTML dump instead of the
> XML. It's not hard to make a desktop reader out of it. I wrote a proof of
> concept a while back.
>
Unless I'm reading your idea incorrectly, the static HTML dump seems
to be about 4 times as large and in 7zip format instead of bzip2.

Got a link to your proof of concept?



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