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Obtaining a dump of the wiki
telamon:
I spend a lot of time without internet access, and DF is such a hardcore game that I find myself severely hobbled without access to the glorious wiki to provide me with the raw information I need. I'm almost unable to play DF without either immediate access to the wiki, or printouts of the pages I require. Since I'm getting back into the game right after a new version's release (and I stopped playing around 31.18, so there are a lot of features I have yet to learn), I'm in constant need of the wiki to familiarize myself, so I basically can't play DF offline.
Wikipedia has the facility to dump a massive number of pages, minus talks, users and old revisions, to a reader's hard drive, and the WikiTaxi tool is capable of interpreting those dumps (ie the mediawiki database format) and displaying them in a convenient reader for offline use. This would totally solve my problem, and we can assume that I have enough hard drive space to handle the volume. Is it at all possible to get this dump service for an entire namespace of the DF wiki, or is that too big a task for the admin team to worry about right now?
Locriani:
We recently added a toolserver to the mix. I can't promise when it will get done, but we will look into providing automated dumps for the wiki for download, as soon as we get image uploads working again.
umaxtu:
A dump of the wiki would be nice. 8) But its not urgent so no rush :D
Edit: What is a toolserver? (Just curious)
GalenEvil:
I think this is a pretty good idea as well, would prevent me from having to go to each individual page and then save it via CTRL+S and save as a whole webpage... I wonder though, would links be functional between pages within the dumped wiki?
Kogut:
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Server hosting bots and various useful tools. Description of Wikipedia toolserver: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Toolserver
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