Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Dr. Kent L. Miller" <wpmirror...@gmail.com>
* Package name : wp-mirror Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Dr. Kent L. Millr <wpmirror...@gmail.com> * URL : http://www.nongnu.org/wp-mirror/ * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: Common Lisp (CLISP 2.48) Description : Utility for building mirrors of Wikipedias Wp-mirror is a free utility for building and maintaining a set of mirrors of Wikipedias (aka a Wikipedia farm). The WikiMedia Foundation offers Wikipedias in nearly 300 languages. The user specifies the set of languages to be mirrored (`simple' is the default, Simple English means shorter sentences). Disk requirements for the `simple' wiki (as of 2011) are: 2G to store the database (latest revisions only for articles, templates, image descriptions, and primary meta-pages), and a further 40G to store the images. This can easily fit on a laptop PC, and takes 100ks (a day) to build. Disk requirements for the `en' wiki (as of 2011) are: 150G to store the database (latest revisions as above), and about 2T to store the images. This requires a desktop PC with at least two large hard disk drives, and one may expect 5Ms (two months) to build. Wp-mirror is non-interactive and usually runs in background as a weekly cron job, updating the mirrors whenever WikiMedia Foundation posts new dump files. If the user runs more than one instance of wp-mirror concurrently, the later ones monitor the progress of the first. If a suitable windowing system is present, progress bars are rendered using graphics in a separate window, and otherwise using ASCII characters in a console. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120212184305.6707.62368.reportbug@darkstar-7.local
