[linuxola] Wikipedia and content for Linuxola

[michel.pauli]

hello,

we are doing it for africa (i fly 31.12.2006)

we will test it tomorrow

http://download.wikipedia.org/backup-index.html

we will test with french because we use it anyway

http://download.wikipedia.org/frwiki/20061204/frwiki-20061204-pages-articles.xml.bz2


we will try with
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps

php maintenance\importDump.php < maintenance\temp.xml

i never do it before

there is another program



      mwdumper


but it is java ans java needs so much resources, i would prefer php

michel






Theo Schmidt schrieb:
> Content for Linuxola
>
> Because of the poor quality of internet connection in many parts of 
> our project countries, it is desirable to store useful content on the 
> Linuxola server hard disks. A way to do this would be to copy useful 
> sites in a proxy server and install this onto the Linuxola server.
>
> This is rather difficult, time-consuming, and beyond my capabilities. 
> I can only offer things I already archived.
>
> In the case of Wikipedia, several download projects exist. 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
>
> Not quite that easy to do it properly. HTML copying is not the way to 
> do it. There is no finished DVD-project yet in the English language, 
> only German. There is a controversial CD-project, see 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Wikipedia_CD_Selection
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Theo Schmidt
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