and there is an extension for mediawiki http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Hyper_Estraier
and I wonder if Intelligent web crawler is intelligent enough that it could skip diffs from mediawiki online wiki. Sure thing for within-site use, it should index everything, but if once again it sounds like a warning to use it against wiki.openmoko.org by eager users. Although Supporting P2P architecture sounds cool, may be if moko-mesh comes to reality at some moment, such indexing could be distributed and 'shared' among moko phones On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, john wrote: > A project I was on had a similar requirement of being able to search > and read documents offline on the iPhone *snarl*. Anyway, what I did > was port an excellent open source search engine called hyper estraier > [1] over to the iPhone and used that on various kinds of documents. As > a test I indexed over 2000 PDFs from MIT OpenCourseWare. It works > really well [2]. I used lighttpd for the web server. All these > technologies will work fine on the 1973/Freerunner. If there is an > interest in this I could package it up for Openmoko. There is also > potential for developing a native GUI local search tool using hyper > estraier because it comes with a C API and other language bindings. > This would remove the web server dependency. > John. > [1] http://hyperestraier.sourceforge.net/ > [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKKlkcZ6vYo > 2008/7/14 Yaroslav Halchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi All, > > In the sight of upcoming delivery of our 10-pack, we wanted to get ready > > to do some testing on the spot, ie when we get together and open our > > boxes, to power then up and try to make sure that all of them work in > > the 'similar' fashion (GPS, GSM, etc) so if there is a defective unit, > > we could localize it easily since we will have a few of them and a few > > of SIM cards to try ;-) > > But if smth doesn't work, of cause, the best way is to lookup on the > > wiki and we will not have (I think) internet connection on the spot. I > > thought if it is possible to gently (smth not like wget -m > > http://www.openmoko.org) obtain a copy of openmoko.org's mediawiki > > content. > > Brief googling lead me to few possible solutions (unfortunately > > not non-intrusive into openmoko's wiki setup) such as > > Mediawiki offline (thanks to Google Gears): > > http://wiki.yobi.be/wiki/Mediawiki_LocalServer > > But I wonder may be there is simpler/better ones like a dump of DB > > without account information credentials, etc? Something like what > > wikipedia offers > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download > > (which they actually closed and I see the reason with their sizes), but > > they also seems to have a workaround > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikix > > -- > > Yaroslav Halchenko > > Research Assistant, Psychology Department, Rutgers-Newark > > Student Ph.D. @ CS Dept. NJIT > > Office: (973) 353-5440x263 | FWD: 82823 | Fax: (973) 353-1171 > > 101 Warren Str, Smith Hall, Rm 4-105, Newark NJ 07102 > > WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik > > _______________________________________________ > > Openmoko community mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- Yaroslav Halchenko Research Assistant, Psychology Department, Rutgers-Newark Student Ph.D. @ CS Dept. NJIT Office: (973) 353-5440x263 | FWD: 82823 | Fax: (973) 353-1171 101 Warren Str, Smith Hall, Rm 4-105, Newark NJ 07102 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
