[Server-devel] Running complete Wikipedia offline

[Martin Langhoff]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> I've been debating the possibility of running a *complete* copy of
> Wikipedia (txt and images) offline on the XS. At this point, the
> targets are English (https://en.wikipedia.org) and Hindi
> (https://hi.wikipedia.org).

It would be trivial. Get the HTML-formatted dumps, serve them statically.

My only comment is... let us know about the on-disk space usage once
it's unpacked (du -sh /path/to/wikipedia )


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