personal wikipedia cache

I'd like to dedicate 2 or 3 percent of my laptop's storage to keeping a 
cache of parts of wikipedia... say... all the featured articles, plus 
all the articles within 2 hops of my user page and within 2 hops of the 
page about me, plus every wikipedia page that I have accessed in the 
last 2 or 3 months.

The trick is that I don't usually use my laptop; I use a desktop 
machine. So running a cron job on the laptop won't work. Maybe I could 
remember to "wake up" the laptop 3 days before I travel to give it a 
chance to sync.

Or maybe I could keep the wikipedia cache on a flash drive and move it 
between desktop and laptop machines.

I guess I'd like to cache more than wikipedia... w3.org, stuff from my 
delicious bookmarks, family photos, etc. hmm.

The local library should run a wikipedia cache too.... though... I 
wonder how nearby in the network they are. If they don't use the same 
ISP, I can imagine the packets getting routed via the east or west 
coast. Their geographic proximity suggests they should share some sense 
of what pages are important to cache.

-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

Received on Saturday, 7 October 2006 23:16:34 UTC