[Noisebridge-discuss] Wikimedia donating servers... offline-Wikipedia-reader-dispenser?

[Parker]

Are there any community mesh projects in SF or the mission specifically? A
computer serving Wikipedia pages could be a cool contribution to such a
project.

http://madebyparker.com
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On Jun 19, 2011 12:08 PM, "John Magolske" <listmail at b79.net> wrote:
> * Dan Cote <terminationshok at gmail.com> [110619 10:29]:
>> We should snag one. [...]
>> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/06/13/server-decommission-donations/
>
> What I think would be really fun & useful is to get one of these
> and purpose it towards building & maintaining an offline-Wikipedia
> reader -- super handy for FAST searching without any need for a
> net connection. By maintaining a current offline copy of Wikipedia
> (and possibly other sites running on MediaWiki like Wikisource,
> Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks ... and of course our very own
> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/ ) and mirroring that to a publicly
> available machine (Pony?) at 2169, anyone who wanted to stop by with
> a thumbdrive could grab a copy for themselves.
>
> I set up this one on my laptop, text-only it required about 2.4 GB:
>
> http://www.tfiu.de/smallwp/
>
> There are more of such tools out there:
>
> http://okawix.com/
> http://www.kiwix.org/ http://blog.wikiwix.com/en/
> http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/buildWikipediaOffline.html
> http://packages.python.org/wp-download/
>
> Oh bummer... just read the donations page to see this:
>
> "At this time we have closed submissions. We have received well
> over 100 requests, and will not have enough servers to cover
> those, let alone more. Thanks for the submissions! ~ RobH @
> 2011-06-18 @ 10:00 EST"
>
> Well, I still think setting up an offline-Wikipedia-reader dispensing
> machine at Noisebridge would be a cool benefit to provide the public.
> Anyone else interested in participating in such a venture?
>
> John
>
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