[linux-audio-user] Re: Wiki

Rob lau at kudla.org
Sat Jul 8 14:34:15 EDT 2006


On Sat July 8 2006 13:00, Juhana Sadeharju wrote:
> 20 MB vs 13.5 GB makes me think the wiki is not of the best
> technology. The download software could be better as well. I
> will mail my suggestions to wget list.

TWiki has a "publish" plugin (I think I've mentioned it before) 
that dumps a static, rendered version of all its pages with 
links rewritten in a way that makes sense, and optionally zips 
it (or maybe I added the zipping part to my local copy, I can't 
remember.)  

Unfortunately, TWiki has also been swiss cheese security wise in 
my experience, but with mediawiki's prominence I would think 
that someone must have written something like a "publish" plugin 
by now to do the same thing.

I don't think the problem with mirroring wikis can really be 
fixed with a patch to wget.... it's the nature of dynamically 
generated content that a tool designed to retrieve static 
content will retrieve way more data than it needs to.  The same 
would apply if you were trying to mirror a web forum or a more 
traditional CMS.

Rob



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