WC Pedia Offline
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ChrisReid
Super Soaker Collector / Administrator
I haven't heard of an offline wikipedia, and I'm not sure any wiki is ever "done." Entries can almost limitlessly be expanded and detailed, and at the current rate, it'll be many years (decades?) before a relatively complete chronicle will be compiled.
Is there a particular reason/use for an offline WC Pedia? I'm asking seriously, because "offline" can mean many different things. Is it just a zip of the page texts (which may not automatically work without the underlying database) for people who connect via dial-up internet? Is it for laptops/tablet computers for people to read on airplanes or long road trips (where internet access is now available)? Whatever form an offline wiki could take, it would undoubtedly require time on the part of our skilled wiki experts to set up, and I doubt it would be used for much. In that regard, I think the best use of people's time is probably to just continue to expand the online wiki for everyone.
So it's certainly possible, but why would we do it?
Is there a particular reason/use for an offline WC Pedia? I'm asking seriously, because "offline" can mean many different things. Is it just a zip of the page texts (which may not automatically work without the underlying database) for people who connect via dial-up internet? Is it for laptops/tablet computers for people to read on airplanes or long road trips (where internet access is now available)? Whatever form an offline wiki could take, it would undoubtedly require time on the part of our skilled wiki experts to set up, and I doubt it would be used for much. In that regard, I think the best use of people's time is probably to just continue to expand the online wiki for everyone.
So it's certainly possible, but why would we do it?
Wedge009
Rogue Leader
I thought the same thing. Maybe it should be renamed to 'Off-line WCPedia'?
ChrisReid
Super Soaker Collector / Administrator
Everything is backed up. We've had a server provider or two go out of business on us before, and we're prepared to come back online somewhere new in 24 hours (and last time, we did!).
be used independent from the net
And that part I'm still not clear on. Do people have computeristic devices that aren't always able to connect to the Internet anymore? We found a hilarious news post last night that showed LOAF moving across the country in early 2000 that resulted in a (planned) five-week period of being offline! https://www.wcnews.com/news/update/1787 https://www.wcnews.com/news/update/1931
Nowadays we have the technology to track LOAF's global whereabouts to within 10 meters, and LOAF often carries three different devices that can wirelessly jack into the grid from anywhere. It's the 20-Teens now, and at least for me personally, being somewhere somehow where I can't connect to the Internet is a distant memory from the 2000s.
If the thought is that maybe someday the CIC will dreadfully cease to exist, there'd be quite a few gigs of material that would not exist anywhere else. (Start mirroring now!) I suppose my answer would be that creating an offline version of anything would require a bunch of work (even the very simple front page is actually web of menu & news #includes and Wiki/Poll/ChatZone/Scoreboard database pulls), and in our limited time, we'd be better off cleaning up the online pages we have, hunting down new leads and generating/updating new content.
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cff
Kilk'dymga'qith laq Ik'vikvi
I can only speak for myself, but I am an dinosaur in that regard. I do not own a smartphone anymore since UMTS became popular, don't have an internet connection via cell phone technology, don't have or care for any i-something stuff and refuse to use any social networkish stuff. Plus I don't expect any of that to change event tho I am a computer guy, well maybe that is the reason for it. I really love to be offline (and untrackable). And yes, I guess I have 80% of the CIC files mirrored :-P
Guess why something like the WCP offline fiction came from my side...
Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
Ah, this isn't that hilarious, I'm pretty sure I was having more eye surgery and didn't want to talk about it online. I don't think cars/trucks/airplanes were noticeably slower eleven years ago.
Dundradal
Frog Blast the Vent Core!
it must not be an offline wiki, just a chronicle as you said, something that can be stored, backuped and be used independent from the net
Well at the rate I'm going this doesn't really need to be thought about until at least 2316....
Jason_Ryock
Vice Admiral
What's media wiki written in? PHP? You could compile it up in PHP with a SQL Lite extension and have it be a separate executable.