Is it possible to save the entire Zdoom wiki?

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Is it possible to save the entire Zdoom wiki?

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Is there some way to just download the entire zdoom wiki unto my hard drive so that I don't need to access the internet to read it? Ditto for the doom wiki.
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Re: Is it possible to save the entire Zdoom wiki?

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I never was successful using HTTrack, but WGET works like a charm.
Instead of the one shown, I use this batch file

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"wget.exe" -rk https://zdoom.org/wiki/Main_Page --no-check-certificate --level=0 --html-extension --include-directories=wiki
Downloads the entire WIKI, about 5600 files, in ca 2 hours 40 minutes.

I just wished I could download only certain files, because about 30% of the files are rather useless.
After trimming those files I was left with about 96 MB of helpful info.
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Re: Is it possible to save the entire Zdoom wiki?

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I know this is a bump but seeing as article 13 just passed I am now interested in downloading the wiki again. As Kappes pointed out I'm not sure how to use HTTrack, so I downloaded WGET instead. But i'm not sure how to use it. Can somebody give me the abridged version on how to use it?
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hardcore_gamer wrote:I know this is a bump but seeing as article 13 just passed I am now interested in downloading the wiki again. As Kappes pointed out I'm not sure how to use HTTrack, so I downloaded WGET instead. But i'm not sure how to use it. Can somebody give me the abridged version on how to use it?
Presumably by doing this:
Kappes Buur wrote:

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"wget.exe" -rk https://zdoom.org/wiki/Main_Page --no-check-certificate --level=0 --html-extension --include-directories=wiki
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Re: Is it possible to save the entire Zdoom wiki?

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Kinsie wrote:
hardcore_gamer wrote:I know this is a bump but seeing as article 13 just passed I am now interested in downloading the wiki again. As Kappes pointed out I'm not sure how to use HTTrack, so I downloaded WGET instead. But i'm not sure how to use it. Can somebody give me the abridged version on how to use it?
Presumably by doing this:
Kappes Buur wrote:

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"wget.exe" -rk https://zdoom.org/wiki/Main_Page --no-check-certificate --level=0 --html-extension --include-directories=wiki
No, I mean how do you use this software? There are no obvious instructions that I can tell. I downloaded it and used the exe but nothing happened.
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Have you ever heard about command prompt? I bet you have not. So, google what that means and how to use it.

Small advice to you - some programs doesnt have any GUI and are controlled from command prompt only.
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hardcore_gamer wrote:No, I mean how do you use this software? There are no obvious instructions that I can tell. I downloaded it and used the exe but nothing happened.
Open a text editor, for example Notepad, and enter the line I gave you. Save as downloadWIKI.bat, or somesuch name, into the WGET/bin folder. Make sure that the file has the .bat extension. Doubleclick on the batch file and the download should start.

Or, as ramon.dexter suggested, open the command prompt and navigate to the WGET/bin folder and copy/paste the line
Spoiler:
Running this command, either from the command prompt or through a batch file, creates a new folder in WGET/bin as zdoom.org and the download starts
Spoiler:
The end result will look like this in your browser, since all files are of the .html type
Spoiler:
The icon for the files will be different for you if you are not using Opera.
You may want to sift through the downloaded files as quite a few do not contain useful information.
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Re: Is it possible to save the entire Zdoom wiki?

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ZDoom's wiki runs on MediaWiki, so WikiTeam's dumpgenerator.py tool will work. Though it'll save the wiki as XML files, which isn't useful if all you want is to read the wiki offline.
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I'd love to have a decent local copy of the Wiki but when I've tried to download it, the ability to search doesn't work in the local copy, so it's not that useful (to me anyway).
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Kappes Burr has the right idea with the wget thing, but it doesn't exclude talk pages or any control activities.

I've been considering developing a script to run directly on the web server and upload a complete copy of the wiki to the DRD Team Devbuilds site.
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I managed to download the ZDoom Wiki using the instructions given on the wiki page with httrack (using HTTraQt GUI), but I had to expand Scan Rules:

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-*.diff.gz -*.rar -*.cab -*/*gitview*/* +*.png +*.gif +*.jpg +*.css +*.js -ad.doubleclick.net/* -*Special:* -*Talk:* -*User:* -*&action=* -*&printable=* -*&oldid=* -*.zip -*.cpp -*.h -*.tar.bz2 -*.c -*.hpp -*.tcc -*.cc -*.deb -*.7z -*.dmg -*.tar.gz -*.exe -*zdoom.org/Changelog/* -zdoom.org/gitdiff/* -*zdoom.org/Changelog* -*zdoom.org/changelog* -github.com/* 
Then with the help of Dashing tool, the offline Dash/Zeal docset was created. I had to do a manual cleanup. The result is far, far, far from perfect, but usable. To use this docset, put the unarchived directory (zdoom.docset) to a directory where other docsets are located (on my machine, it's ~/.local/share/Zeal/Zeal/docsets).

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Enjay wrote:I'd love to have a decent local copy of the Wiki but when I've tried to download it, the ability to search doesn't work in the local copy, so it's not that useful (to me anyway).
Of course. For that, you'd need to run your own local copy of Wikimedia on a localhost server (something like WAMP or EasyPHP could probably do the trick on Windows) and then use the mediawiki export and import tools.

M8f's alternative solution of creating a Dash or Zeal docset may be much simpler.

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