Jimmy Wales is thinking about this now as he's trying to do the same thing for wikipedia, as text books for kids. We can probably ask him what he's doing. And I don't know what's worse, you thinking about this on a Friday or evening, or me responding...and thinking about Firefox marketing in football terms.
James
· 3 years ago
O'Reilly are doing something like this with their early preview stuff - maybe you could talk to them?
dria
· 3 years ago
James: do you mean the new "Rough Cuts" book series, or something else? If something else, could you give me a URL where I can get more information? Thanks :)
They provide dumps of mediawiki, so that users can use them for offline browsing or printing maybe.
They also have a tool which can convert from the dumps to static html pages (which seems to be specific to wikipedia, though).
dria
· 3 years ago
That's definitely another possibility. I started thinking about what would be required to dump a static version of each language wiki this morning, actually. Thanks for the link.
James
· 3 years ago
Yeah, Rough Cuts was what I was thinking of.
Luke
· 3 years ago
Thank's for thinking this way! I'm really in need for an offline version of the MDCWiki, since i'm developing in the Mozilla context but rarely have the opportunity to log on to thw i-net. Please notify me (by email, or via your blog which i'm tracking ;-)) as soon as you got any solution. I would be pleased to help with testing and would also use it in any alpha state. Sadly though :-( i do not know any solution for the problem.
Keep up the thinking!
Sohail Mirza
· 3 years ago
If one could get all the content into a single page, you may find that to be very useful when used in combination with the technique outlined in this List Apart article:
It describes the process they used to publish a book from HTML/CSS source. I'm not sure if this is entirely relevant to what you're attempting to do, but you may find it helpful.
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They provide dumps of mediawiki, so that users can use them for offline browsing or printing maybe.
They also have a tool which can convert from the dumps to static html pages (which seems to be specific to wikipedia, though).
I'm really in need for an offline version of the MDCWiki, since i'm developing in the Mozilla context but rarely have the opportunity to log on to thw i-net. Please notify me (by email, or via your blog which i'm tracking ;-)) as soon as you got any solution. I would be pleased to help with testing and would also use it in any alpha state.
Sadly though :-( i do not know any solution for the problem.
Keep up the thinking!
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/boom
It describes the process they used to publish a book from HTML/CSS source. I'm not sure if this is entirely relevant to what you're attempting to do, but you may find it helpful.