Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Reg. Research using Wikipedia

2011-03-10 Thread Ángel González
On 10/03/11 7:13 PM, Arthur Richards wrote: > You're likely correct - also I've recently been exposed to the > 'wikipedia offline patch' extension > (http://code.google.com/p/wikipedia-offline-patch/) which I believe > allows you to use a compressed dump as your db stroage - saving you the > pa

Re: [Wikitech-l] Offline wiki tools

2010-12-15 Thread Ángel González
On 15/12/10 16:21, Andrew Dunbar wrote: > I've long been interested in offline tools that make use of WikiMedia > information, particularly the English Wiktionary. > > I've recently come across a tool which can provide random access to a > bzip2 archive without decompressing it and I would like to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Parallel computing project

2010-10-26 Thread Ángel González
Ariel T. Glenn wrote: > If one were clever (and I have some code that would enable one to be > clever), one could seek to some point in the (bzip2-compressed) file and > uncompress from there before processing. Running a bunch of jobs each > decompressing only their small piece then becomes feasib