Get Halachipedia Offline
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We'd like to offer the ability to users to download an offline version of Halachipedia for reference if and when there's no internet access. Here are the possible options:
- One way to access the site offline is to download a compressed xml version of the database. Because it is very large you should use Notepad++ (for PC) or Sublime (for mac) or the like. [Click here to download the xml database dump ] (Nov 2014).
- The best option is to actually mirror the site. Wikipedia offers the xml dumps but also offers the database dumps in sql which could be used to recreate the website in its full glory just like it is on the server. The catch with the last option is that it is hard to set up. I'd be very happy to explain it and write a page on Halachipedia for how to do it, but realize that it isn't just one download and you're good. It means downloading and installing php, mysql, and mediawiki software. I think it can be simplified to 15 minutes of work (excluding download times) but it isn't simple. If you're interested, please email [1].
- The option which would have been easiest for users is to download every single pages in all of its html and then compress that. The problem is that downloading that and getting it set up corrrectly with links wasn't really possible. I left a program running for days working on that download and it didn't finish, it would have been every large, and still not really functionable, just the links would work but not the edit tab, etc. Wikipedia no longer offers the html option probably for the same reason, it is much larger than the actual database.
