At 04:20 PM 9/22/2004 -0700, Brion Vibber wrote:
On Sep 22, 2004, at 2:46 PM, Yann Forget wrote:
Mandrakesoft wants that we provide them with a
master DVD, and would like to
complete this first edition for Christmas.
I have to warn that this schedule sounds insanely optimistic. Somebody
would need to check and lock off for publishing several thousand articles
each day in order to meet this deadline.
My impression was that this isn't going to be a "reviewed" 1.0-style
Wikipedia, but rather a plain old snapshot that's had all the images
lacking the correct licencing tags automatically stripped out, and possibly
the articles with {{stub}} in them stripped out as well (personally I think
stubs should be left in, but IMO it's probably not a major issue either
way). The downside of this approach is that it's bound to catch a few
articles in a "bad" state, but the upside is that it will actually be
possible to do it in the timeframe needed. It'd be not much different than
the many websites that are already running static mirrors of Wikipedia content.
A lot of articles might wind up looking a little messy when images get
stripped out, too. Hopefully the stripping process will be clever enough to
take out the relevant [[Image:]] tags, but there will be leftover tables
and divs and whatnot that get missed by this. Oh well.