[wp-docs] codex git repo ???

[Mika A Epstein]

Understanding the why and wherefore of a question helps the people answering it find the best answer possible.  Many times, the best answer that satisfies as much as possible, can only be found with a complete understanding.

In that specific situation, people who need to access it while working offline, I would consider spinning up my own, localhost version of MediaWiki (make it read only), running an export of the WordPress content, and copying it all up.  Sync it once or twice a week, and Bob's your uncle.  Keeps it both readable AND in a familiar format/layout.

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Mika A Epstein (aka Ipstenu)
http://ipstenu.org

On 18 Sep 2011, at 2:38:35PM, Mike Little wrote:

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> On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 20:10, BUGHUNTER <bughunter at riseup.net> wrote:
> Hello Mike,
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> You have yet to explain why you need this. What giant leap for the community will you having a private copy of the codex provide?
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> Hmmm, it was written before: there are people still offline a lot! 
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> Actually what you wrote was "is there a codex git repo for offline processing / viewing?"
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> I do not feel that your question is legitimate or could not be answered by yourself, but why not just answer it - I will work on a project in asia for a few months and, well, you might imagine that there are still places on this planet where there is no internet 24/7 - really! Especially in an educational context it might be good to have codex offline with rsyncable and therefor  efficient updates.
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> Now, that I answered your question, I wold like you to answer mine: 
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> > You have yet to explain why you need this.
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> Why do feel like I have to explain this? 
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> I don't feel like you have to explain it, I simply asked the question. 
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> You seem to be very insistent asking for something there seems little enthusiasm to do, and then you declared that it would be good for the community, but I didn't understand from your earlier posts in this thread why it would be good.
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> Really, is it so uncommon that people read documentation offline? 
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> As I mention above, you specifically referred to "processing"
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> BTW I did not think that this is a problem or anything that an experienced developer had to think more than 10 minutes about or that it might be becoming an issue discussed so much. In the time we are discussing this, dumps could have been configured many times...
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> It has been explained in this thread and the other referred thread that the codex is not a standard codex and has modified code, and for all I know modified data structure too.
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> And as I have already pointed out in my previous email, you could have spidered the whole codex many times over during the course of this thread.
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> Why would a spidered copy of the site not be suitable for off line reading?
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> Another question: your mediawiki is so special that mysql dumps do not work anymore? Seriously? And you can not solve it?
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> Firstly, it's not my MediaWiki, secondly, you seem to be making the mistake that what you think is desirable and easy, is desirable and easy for anyone else. It seems to me that there is no great desire to provide this service.
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> Mike
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