[Wikipedia-l] Static Wikipedia (was: attribution policy)

[Larry Sanger]

From: "Axel Boldt" <axel at uni-paderborn.de>
> David brought up the idea of publishing some Wikipedia documents as
> part of the Linux Documentation Project. That reminded me of an old
> idea: publish a snapshot of the Wikipedia as a downloadable set of
> static HTML pages that people can use without a net connection, and
> that could also be burned on CD. No wiki.cgi script needed. If someone
> clicks on an edit link or RecentChanges, they are directed to the
> corresponding life Wikipedia page.

That would be fantastic!

> By the way, it would be nice if the wikipedia tarballs could be
> updated, to encourage experimentation like this.

Yes.  I was told a week or two ago that this was soon to be done daily.
I don't know if that's now the case, though...squeaking wheels, keep
a-squeakin'.

Larry