On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Luis Alberto Zarrabeitia Gomez <[email protected]> wrote: > > Until yesterday, I thought that Wikipedia's static dumps were generated with > the > maintenance/dumpHTML.{php,ini} scripts. But the page > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers currently reads: "This has > been used (years ago) to create the static dumps at > http://static.wikipedia.org";. > > So, what is the method currently used to generate the dumps? I need to dump a > wiki for offline use, and I'd like to be as compatible as possible. > > (I'd also like to dump the math equations and other extensions I have > installed, > so I thought staying as close as possible to mediawiki would be the way to > go). > > -- > Luis Zarrabeitia > Facultad de Matemática y Computación, UH > http://profesores.matcom.uh.cu/~kyrie I believe currently they are being held together by a [[Rube Goldberg machine]] of every little peice imaginable (inculding the souls of the developers) although after the rewrite that is planned it should be a lot more documented and easier to follow.
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