Wikipedia talk:Snapshots
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[edit] Database on CD?
Has the Wikipedia considered selling a set of CDs, like once a year, in order to fund the hypothetical non-profit organization? If it were contracted out for a few thousand sets of 10-100? CDs, prices could be kept fairly reasonable.
~ender 2003-04-15 04:01 MST
Consider the fact that anyone can sell wikipedia on cds, books and etc and has no obligation in contributing any fee to the wikipedia. So wikipedia is not in any privileged position to sell it's database, a press industry would make books quicker, and a cd seller would make cd-roms faster (and maybe cheaper) than wikimedia foundation hiring someone. The best is that anyone who ever made money from wikipedia content be nice and donate part of it's profit to the wikimedia. --Alexandre Van de Sande 11:10, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I think a 'WikiLive' DVD would simplify things for most users. It would avoid novice users having to install and configure complicated PHP and PHP-MySQL server 'thingies' and would run on any computer.
A basic setup could be a stripped down Knoppix CD, with PHP-MySQL requirements pre-installed and configured to optimise running off the DVD. Firefox can be adapted to provide the best possible viewing and browsing experience.
One of the open source search-engines could be used to search for material on the CD/DVD/hard drive.
Beyond the PHP-SQL-MediaWiki engine, which should be able to install completely and EASILY, possibly as a Knoppix based operating system, there are database dumps in specific languages. Big ones, like English, most people would presumably keep/swap/buy on DVD/CD, but small ones could be downloaded and installed to this OS, if desired. Having this OS installed to your hard drive, you could then download additional databases of Wiki material off the net and run them on your hard drive, and then maybe even share them on an intranet (off the internet).
--Jkh.gr 16:41, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Offline publication efforts of German Wikipedia documented
For those of you interested in publishing an offline Wikipedia snapshot, validating articles or moving towards Wikipedia-1.0, I have documented the quite successful efforts of the German team at German Wikipedia. AxelBoldt 01:34, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
