Static Site Snapshot/mirror, for storing on the Z Options

[speculatrix]

Just as you can get a snapshot of wikipedia and store on your PC (or even PDA), it occurred to me that a snapshot of the OESF forum would be a very useful thing if combined with free text search.

There's a huge amount of wisdom on it (a lot of which should be in the wiki, but isn't), and so an archive would be a real asset. The low-graphics version of course would be best, but provided the archive was created without the attachments, it'd be OK as there'd be only one copy of the site.

I did try a speed-throttled wget once, but it wasn't too satisfactory.

Any chance of considering being able to do this on the server itself and make a monthly snapshot downloadable in .zip or .tar.bz2? Some of us could burn CDs or DVDs to send to people without broad-band.

thanks
Paul

[Jon_J]

speculatrix,
I tried using the program you listed to make an offline copy of this wiki site:
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Oblivion

It's a wiki about a computer RPG game.
"The Elder Scrolls IV - Oblivion"

It downloaded about 9,000 pages that resulted in a 120MB.
It took 1 hour on my adsl connection.
This is just for a computer game...!?
Is there any way to know beforehand, how much data is going to be downloaded?
I was thinking about placing this wiki on my Zaurus, but it ended up being way too big for just one game.
I decided to cancel this because it was downloading 8 other previous versions of (Elder Scrolls game wikis) which are in the left-hand frame.

I had been just saving individual web pages that interested me from this wiki previously.