wp-mirror - Summary
This project is not part of the GNU Project.
The Wikimedia Foundation offers wikipedias in nearly 300 languages.
Wp-mirror is a free utility for mirroring any desired set of these wikipedias. That is, it builds a wikipedia farm that the user can browse locally. Many users need such off-line access, often for reasons of mobility, availability, and privacy. Wp-mirror builds a complete mirror with original size images. Wp-mirror is robust and uses check-pointing to resume after interruption.
Wp-mirror by default mirrors the `simple' wikipedia (Simple English means shorter sentences). The default should work `out-of-the-box' with no user configuration. It should build in 200ks (two days), occupy 40G of disk space, be served locally by a virtual host <http://simple.mediawiki.site/>, and update automatically every week. The default should be suitable for anyone who learned English as a second language (ESL).
The top ten wikipedias are: en, de, fr, nl, it, es, pl, ru, ja, and pt. Because wp-mirror uses original size image files, the top ten are too large to fit on a laptop with a single 500G disk, unless the user does not need the images (and this is configurable). The `en' wikipedia is the most demanding case. It should build in 5Ms (two months), occupy 2T of disk space, be served locally by a virtual host <http://en.mediawiki.site/>, and update automatically every month.
Registration Date: Sat 24 Dec 2011 05:15:58 AM UTC
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
Development Status: 4 - Beta



