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Can someone take a site dump, and somehow read it offline? Yes! | Can someone take a site dump, and somehow read it offline? Yes! | ||
====Steps to getting offline access to Appropedia==== | |||
Assumptions | |||
:* Appropedia's static Cash looks like [http://download.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html wikipedia's]. This probably includes not only the version of the wiki software but also the compression (bzip2) | |||
:* You are on a windows machine | |||
Steps | |||
:* Download and Install the latest version of [http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ Firefox]. | |||
:* Add the [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2423 Zipedia Add-On] to Firefox. | |||
:* Download the [http://www.appropedia.org/currentdump.xml.gz Appropedia Dump] | |||
:* Download and install [http://www.7-zip.org/ 7zip] | |||
:* uncompress .gz file | |||
:* compress .xml file to .bz2 | |||
:* Reload Firefox if you haven't already | |||
====Further Reading==== | |||
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikislice might help. | * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikislice might help. | ||
* http://wiki.laptop.org/go/WikiBrowse_English. | * http://wiki.laptop.org/go/WikiBrowse_English. | ||
Revision as of 04:41, 28 December 2008
Can someone take a site dump, and somehow read it offline? Yes!
Steps to getting offline access to Appropedia
Assumptions
- Appropedia's static Cash looks like wikipedia's. This probably includes not only the version of the wiki software but also the compression (bzip2)
- You are on a windows machine
Steps
- Download and Install the latest version of Firefox.
- Add the Zipedia Add-On to Firefox.
- Download the Appropedia Dump
- Download and install 7zip
- uncompress .gz file
- compress .xml file to .bz2
- Reload Firefox if you haven't already
Further Reading
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikislice might help.
- http://wiki.laptop.org/go/WikiBrowse_English.
- http://lee.org/blog/2008/08/17/how-to-create-an-html-dump-of-mediawiki/
- Seth from OLPC says (via Twitter): "SJ and CJB have spent quite a lot of time compressing large sections of #wikipedia into a stand-alone static library... come to think of it cscott has done a lot of work in static caching of our wiki in interesting ways, he would be useful too."