[Wikipedia-l] Everything in the last digest

[Ian]

Um, when you get down to it, the PHP does produce HTML. Couldn't you just
have the mirrors display static html pages? 

It would be a new feature in the PHP code - it would have to produce pages
with only relative links, except for the edit features, which would link
directly to wikipedia.com. And some way of communicating to mirrors of
what to download when. 

Ian

> The existing PHP code will be useless in generating a static site
> suitable for mirroring.
> 
> Well, I do have the wt2txt utility, which will convert articles into
> DocBook XML, which is easily publishable in many formats including
> PDF, PostScript, text, and good old html.
> 
> Sime I'm already working on very much the same problem, there's no
> need for you to duplicate work. My code is all under the GPL. So if
> any programmers want to help with this, talk to me.
> 
> -- 
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> because their products frustrate them so much, but also because this
> frustration is ignored. The computer makes people feel like they are
> dummies, when in fact it is the computer that is stupid.
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