I am trying to create an offline Wikipedia client for the Wikipedia XML dump. I know there are lot of programs on the, but all seems to render the page very badly, because the Wiki markup has enhanced considerably but all these programs are quite outdated and almost dead.
After scanning the internet since yesterday, I have come-up a number of libraries and programs but all of them don't render the page perfectly. Hence, I was toying with the idea of rendering the page using MediaWiki's php files as the people at woc.fslab.de (Offline Wikipedia Client) have done. I have downloaded Offline Wikipedia Client but I yet haven't been able to figure it out how to use it. Anyway, its looks too complicated and overly large. I want an Offline Client myself which would be served via Http (I have tried importing the dump into freashly installed Mediawiki but the rebuild links takes forever and WikiFilter is not for Linux - yet I tried that over wine).
So, my question is. Can anyone please guide me to the php files of MediaWiki that I can use with little modification. I intend to provide it all the necessary details like list of Templates and their codes to substitute, the categories and the article markup as input to the php file,etc. I expect to get the html code that can be sent to the user's browser.
All this may look very pointless, but after battering my brains over this thing and repeatedly getting disappointing results, my brain has gone fuzzy and desperate.
May you have peace pf mind.
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