[Server-devel] Running complete Wikipedia offline

Sameer Verma sverma at sfsu.edu
Tue Dec 18 13:31:12 EST 2012


On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 4:36 AM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:28 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).
>>
>> The demand on the local server wouldn't be huge, given the relatively
>> small footprint at the school. Storage is cheap. This would be an
>> offline copy for one-way consumption, so I'm not looking for ways to
>> do local edits, and push these back upstream. I'd imagine the
>> Wikipedia dumps can be rsync'd once every x months over sneakernet.
>> Dump data is here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps
>
> When I was in Nepal we cloned Wiktionary onto the school server, and I
> imagine the process is similar for wikipedia. The way we did it was:
>
> Install mediawiki and configure it the same way that the "real"
> version is configured:
> http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/
>
> Install the same plugins that are running on the real version:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version
>
> Then import the db
> http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html
>
> Then make a few local tweaks (e.g. disable registration/editing)
>
> Daniel
>
>

Thx, Daniel. Will work on things and get back.

cheers,
Sameer
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Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
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