Local Wikipedia Install Exposes IE & Firefox File Size Limit Bug?
For the past two weeks I have been working on setting up a local copy of Wikipedia which is an online encyclopedia that anyone on the internet can contribute to. The idea is that a community-edited encyclopedia could leverage the expertise of everyone on the intenet to develop a world-class encyclopedia. Although Wikipedia isn’t a perfect source from which to do college or graduate level research projects, it provides reasonable answers to many questions that aren’t present in traditional print encyclopedias.
To move this process along I have finally gotten a copy of Fedora Core 4 installed in VMWare on my Windows 2003 Server box, it’s taken quite some time in restoring the encyclopedia database which is about a 4 gigabyte text file (will be much larger once restored). On a Pentium 4 2.8Ghz (HT-enabled) and 1.5 gigs of ram, it took a little over 48 hours to restore the database dump of the English version of Wikipedia. My entire Linux install including the database is hovering at around 20 gigabytes of used space.
Everything was working fine except for the fact that I had none of the images that are embedded in the articles. I found a backup of the images as well. I had problems downloading it in both Firefox (FX) and Internet Explorer (IE). In both IE and FX, the file showed up as a 753 megabyte file. In reality the file is supposed to be 17 gigabytes which leads me to believe that both IE and FX have some weird file download size limit preventing them from downloading the entire thing. Finally I installed the windows version of WGET and it is working perfectly.
Update: This bug is resolved in the latest Firefox version.
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