[Wolves] Encyclopaedia on linux

[Shane M. Coughlan]

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Stuart Langridge wrote:
> A chap at http://www.jraleigh.com/index.php/2006/03/08/offline-wikipedia/
> installed his own local copy of mediawiki (the software that runs
> wikipedia) and imported all the wikipedia data into it. The wikipedia
> people also make static HTML dumps available:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download has lots of
> information about different ways to download. Most of these dumps are,
> however, bigger than a CD, so someone creating a CD wikipedia would
> need to think a bit about how to compress the data.

Very nice.

A quick peek suggests two things: (1) any application making use of
wikipedia will require frequent updates and (2) these updates are going
to be problematic because of the size of the database.

I guess the best thing would be some sort of system to check and
download 'important' articles on a rolling basis (definition of
'important' really depends on the user), while having larger updates
occur once a month or so in the wee hours of the night.

Shane

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