Nice!!! :) BTW, I have used some offline wikipedia solutions on my windows mobile phone a couple of few years back (Don't remember their names now but they were quite popular). Did you happen to look at them? Don't also remember whether they were open source or not but might give u a few ideas to prevent you from reinventing the wheel, if such a case happens. ---------------------- http://tech.shantanugoel.com/ http://www.safercode.com/blog/ http://blog.shantanugoel.com/
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:54 PM, shantanu choudhary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > Here is the link to a project http://code.google.com/p/offline-wikipedia/ . > I have been working on this idea from last two months or so.Although in this > ever-connecting world via internet, this idea seems to be obsolete, but > right now we are far away from that situation(atleast 2 years). And untill > then i think this application might prove handy. Target of this project is > to come out with DVD distribution, having all the content of english > wikipedia, and if some-one wishes to install it, it should be able to do so > in less then 5G space(One can give that much space given the cheap rates of > memmory now a days) and finally make it good enough that it can make upto > this link http://download.wikimedia.org/dvd.html . > Now here are some links for some attempts made to create offline wikipedia > already among these i have worked around first one heavily as it seemed to > me as more logical and complete: > > 1. > http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/buildWikipediaOffline.html<http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/%7Ettsiod/buildWikipediaOffline.html> > 2. http://code.google.com/p/bzreader/ > 3. http://code.google.com/p/daluang/ > 4. http://code.google.com/p/pyswim/ > > All of this ideas(except last one) work around using compressed xml file > provided by mediawiki.(http://download.wikimedia.org/) > First one among above mentioned list uses mediawiki parser itself to convert > xml to html. Now here i had to create equivalent python parser for the same. > Second one is a browser which allows you to read xml content, which renders > articles in some to make them readable. Third and fourth are i guess more > near to my approach but they are using them for i guess chinese and > indonasian content of wikipedia. All in all except from first link no-one > else attempted to create working offline english-wikipedia. > > Right now i have a working configuration but it will take around 4G of > space, i am looking for place to host it, and will post it as soon as it is > done, until then i thought it would be good to at least share the idea, and > get some feed-back/reaction. As far as future is concerned, it can be ported > to work on OLPC-sugar, once it meets all requirements, can be distributed as > DVD's just like Britanica or encarta(both are propritory). > I have tried to explain everythin in readme files and Install files, but > still in case some-one wants more direction or help can contact me > off-the-list. > > -- > Regards > Shantanu > > ps: > Thanks to nandeep(n9986) for last minute commits, due to which code base of > project became some-what presentable. > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
