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Originally Posted by tredlie View Post
A couple of questions: I guess images are not really part of the installation?
what would be the realy advantage compared to evopedia, the LaTeX math presentation?
Or being able to produce own dumps more quickly?
Images are not part of the installation a) because that would just be insanely large, and b) because Wikipedia doesn't provide dumps of them. http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20100312/ is where they are from.

LaTeX math presentation will be present as it is in the current desktop version. I am currently working to replace the PHP based parser with the Python-based mwlib. Then I just have to recode the bzip2 file extractor in Perl with some Python. After that, it's just replacing the Django webservice with a simple HTTP server, and then it shouldn't require anything special - apart from a few compiled bits.