I definitely don’t condone people telling you to kill yourself, but the fact that you are consistently receiving negative responses in an otherwise friendly community should give you pause: you’re missing a lot of clues. Unless you enjoy being ostracized like this, it might be time for a bit of serious introspection.
This is the way! Kiwix website has all the goodies one could want, and can easily download Wikipedia in your language and in different formats. Highly recommend Kiwix! Also comes with Android app, and PC client to read the documents offline.
Note that I suspect you actually want the third one, in which case I suggest you avoid MediaWiki. Not because it’s bad, but because it’s almost certainly overkill for your use-case and there’s way simpler, easier-to-setup-and-maintain systems with fewer moving parts out there.
Also, someone may want a snapshot of Wikipedia, but not need to run a full copy – like, they don’t need article history and such. You can get that too.
Note that I suspect you actually want the third one, in which case I suggest you avoid MediaWiki. Not because it’s bad, but because it’s almost certainly overkill for your use-case and there’s way simpler, easier-to-setup-and-maintain systems with fewer moving parts out there.
I kind of regret that, because I don’t like the proliferation of wiki syntaxes. Like, I’d rather have just one syntax that everyone could learn.
Oh, I’m 100% there with you on syntax. But having multiple pieces of software that support the same syntax seems useful.
Personally I’ve turned into more markdown kind of person rather than the traditional wiki syntax. And at least that one gained some level of standardization over time …
Since most of those are run commercially and don’t make their data easily accessible, that’ll be a much different process, I assume. You’ll basically have to scrape them like any other web site, except you’ll specifically be targeting the edit/source view pages. Then find a wiki implementation that has as close a syntax as possible to the one they use (that could be tricky …) and upload there. So unless you happen to find some code from someone who wanted to do the exact same thing, I’m afraid this would involve quite some programming/scripting.
I try to be positive here on programming.dev but someone gave you an incredibly thoughtful reply and you returned the favor with absolute disrespect. I think the only positive outcome here would be for me to simply block you and encourage others to do the same.
Not annoyed, but many other people understood what I meant, and your suspicion was not correct, although I really used name Wikipedia explicitly (also, the image is PNG, it has word Wikipedia, but Lemmy decided to not show it, but when I was attaching it, it was showing)
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Oh. Seems this is a pattern.
I definitely don’t condone people telling you to kill yourself, but the fact that you are consistently receiving negative responses in an otherwise friendly community should give you pause: you’re missing a lot of clues. Unless you enjoy being ostracized like this, it might be time for a bit of serious introspection.
https://kiwix.org/en/
You can self-host the kiwix server in docker and grab .zim files for whatever wiki you want to host. Wikipedia is one of those files.
This is the way! Kiwix website has all the goodies one could want, and can easily download Wikipedia in your language and in different formats. Highly recommend Kiwix! Also comes with Android app, and PC client to read the documents offline.
Oh, oh, oh, this is actually what I wanted, and the other comment that says to download Wikipedia in my language
I didn’t know it’s so easy to import Wikipedia db into a third party knowledge database service
DokuWiki is very simple to get started
!ibis@lemmy.ml
Complementary https://lemmy.world/post/13073457
Wikiless?
The original project was taken down by Wikipedia, but this appears to be an active fork of it:
https://github.com/Metastem/wikiless
@nutomic@lemmy.ml made a federated wiki project if that’s something that interests you.
https://tiddlywiki.com/ could also be an option. Although it’s mostly for notes and such I think.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
Without any text it’s really hard to guess what you want and that’s why you get so many different answers.
Do you want to
Note that I suspect you actually want the third one, in which case I suggest you avoid MediaWiki. Not because it’s bad, but because it’s almost certainly overkill for your use-case and there’s way simpler, easier-to-setup-and-maintain systems with fewer moving parts out there.
Also, someone may want a snapshot of Wikipedia, but not need to run a full copy – like, they don’t need article history and such. You can get that too.
http://xowa.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwix
I kind of regret that, because I don’t like the proliferation of wiki syntaxes. Like, I’d rather have just one syntax that everyone could learn.
Oh, I’m 100% there with you on syntax. But having multiple pieces of software that support the same syntax seems useful.
Personally I’ve turned into more markdown kind of person rather than the traditional wiki syntax. And at least that one gained some level of standardization over time …
I’ll hop on this, a while back I was curious about hosting game wikis, like ripping from fandom and hosting myself. Any good ideas for that?
Since most of those are run commercially and don’t make their data easily accessible, that’ll be a much different process, I assume. You’ll basically have to scrape them like any other web site, except you’ll specifically be targeting the edit/source view pages. Then find a wiki implementation that has as close a syntax as possible to the one they use (that could be tricky …) and upload there. So unless you happen to find some code from someone who wanted to do the exact same thing, I’m afraid this would involve quite some programming/scripting.
I have a the logo of the Wikipedia right in the post, and I explicitly say Wikipedia, not wiki, not a knowledge database 🫣
I try to be positive here on programming.dev but someone gave you an incredibly thoughtful reply and you returned the favor with absolute disrespect. I think the only positive outcome here would be for me to simply block you and encourage others to do the same.
Atta boy double down.
I’m sorry that my attempt to find out what you want to be able to provide useful help annoyed you.
Not annoyed, but many other people understood what I meant, and your suspicion was not correct, although I really used name Wikipedia explicitly (also, the image is PNG, it has word Wikipedia, but Lemmy decided to not show it, but when I was attaching it, it was showing)
Do you have a personality disorder?
Any specific reason to be so rude ?Didn’t expect this in the friendly Selfhosted community, but I didn’t read all comments.I feel ambiguous with that question…
Clearly OP has social skills issues and maybe it’s a genuine question. Or it can be just a way to offend…
Either way I think OP must rethink hes attitude toward other people.
The post OP is being a dick to people and needlessly antagonizing people.
Good call. I did not read all of the comments :/
Looks like you live in a dystopia, where making healthy relations are scarce.
Maybe you would be great to practice your social skills, dude…
What?
You are lucky that people are nice, cause due to your petulance I would never help you
These nice people are trying to shame me for my presumably mental issues, this is ridiculous 👏
I suspect, if you were to stop being an entitled asshole, “these nice people” would find it a bit easier to be nice to you.
What a stupid reply. Expecting free help, but posting more than a logo from google is asking too much.
mediawiki
https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
Edit: make sure to check out the different styles otherwise it may look outdated
The software Wikipedia runs on is called Mediawiki. And yes, you can self-host it.