Hi Jamie,
Am 17.02.2010 11:41, schrieb Jamie Morken:
am sure that the intentions are good for what they are
doing, people
just want to protect wikipedia (including me). I am most interested in
learning about how to make a local searchable backup of the full
wikipedia, it seems a bit tricky with the xml format. I plan on making
a install of apache/lucene/mysql/php/mediawiki and see how it works! :)
have you ever looked into openZIM? The ZIM file format offers a highly
compressed storage which includes a fulltext search index.
Currently there are Kiwix as a GUI reader application and the zimreader
as a webserver available, along with special readers for embedded
devices etc.
The Wikimedia Foundation is working on providing regular ZIM dumps of
their wikis along with the SQL and XML dumps.
/Manuel
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Regards
Manuel Schneider
Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge
www.wikimedia.ch