Very interesting concept. I assume you've seen [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team], which is closely related. Couple of questions:
* It can edit offline articles — to what end? Does it push these articles when the device goes online? How does it handle edit conflicts? Which version is the user editing (i.e., for high traffic articles, it's rather impractical to be editing a database dump that is ~days/weeks old, considering all the changes made since)? * It downloads images on demand — so someone needs to browse to a page before downloading the images for it? How long are these images cached? Adjustable? These are just a couple of thoughts that popped into my mind at first. It might be worthwhile talking to the (English) WP 1.0 folks (we can meet on IRC if you want, let me know) about integrating this with that project... adding a link to a XOWA install with just the pages selected for WP 1.0? I can see the benefit of having a version of WP 1.0 that is cross-platform/doesn't require addition software/self-contained...at least as a first use for your work. See [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_0.8/downloads] Thanks, Theo See also: * [http://library.kiwix.org/wikipedia_en_wp1/] On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 5:47 PM, gnosygnu <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm hoping this forum is a proper place for this message. My apologies > if it is not. > > XOWA is a new open-source offline Wikipedia app which I wrote in my > spare time over the past 20 months. You can view screenshots here ( > http://sourceforge.net/projects/xowa ) or here ( > http://imgur.com/a/OydBK/layout/blog ). Its notable features are: > * It is a full-fledged offline HTML reader for English Wikipedia (or > any other Wikimedia Foundation wiki) > * It works directly against the data-dump files (such as those at > http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html) > * It downloads images from Wikimedia on demand (or locally from a > Wikimedia image tarball at > http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/wikimedia/imagedumps/tarballs/fulls/20130101/ > ) > * It can edit offline articles (to update content, correct vandalism > or just to experiment) > * It navigates between offline wikis (Click on "Look up this word in > Wiktionary" and it will open your offline version of Wiktionary) > > I'm posting here because I'm looking for feedback. So far, I have a > few good users, and one exceptional user from German Wikipedia > (Schnark: who added MathJax and sortable/collapsible tables). I'm > currently looking for others who will try offline images, test English > Wikipedia, or review wikis in other languages. > > The most recent version of XOWA is contained in one zip file. It takes > one click and about 3 minutes to download Simple Wikipedia for offline > use. XOWA also has a page that lists 596 other wikis that can be set > up with one click. English Wikipedia is the largest and it will take > between 4 and 5 hours, but most of that time is to download and unzip > the 9 GB .bz2 file. > > If you're interested and have some time, please give XOWA a try. I > post Windows-specific instructions below. XOWA also works on Linux > (and possibly Mac OS X), so if you want to run on that OS, the > instructions are similar except you will need to run "java -jar > xowa_linux.jar" or "java -d32 -DstartOnFirstThread -jar > xowa_macosx.jar" > > If you have questions or comments or problems, please post and I will > reply. > > Thanks for your attention. > > ------------ > Instructions > ------------ > > Requirements: > * 1 GB free space: XOWA (5 MB) + XUL Runner (32 MB) + Simple Wikipedia > (500 MB) + ImageMagick/Inkscape (400 MB) > * Windows XP or higher > * Java 1.6 or Java 1.7. If Java is not installed on your machine, you > can get it from http://www.java.com/en/download > > Steps > * Download xowa_app_windows_v0.2.2.0.zip from > http://sourceforge.net/projects/xowa/files/v0.2.2 > * Unzip the file to C:\xowa. When you are done, you should have a file > called C:\xowa\xowa.exe as well as many other files and directories > * Double-click C:\xowa\xowa.exe. The app should launch and the XOWA > Main Page should load. > * Click the link for "Set up Simple Wikipedia". Wait about 3 minutes > for the wiki to download and install. When it is finished, it will > open Simple Wikipedia > * Browse Simple Wikipedia. When you are done, click on the Main Page > link under XOWA in the left hand navigation bar. > * Click the link for "Set up images (Windows)". Wait about 3 minutes > for the image programs to install. > * Click on Page history on the left hand nav > * Select Main_Page for simple.wikipedia.org. Images will now download > automatically for any page you visit. Here are some example pages to > visit (you can copy and paste these into the address bar): > "simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/World History", > "simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess", "simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic > architecture", "simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn (planet)" > * If you want to try other wikis, click on "list of data dumps" on the > XOWA Main Page > > _______________________________________________ > Offline-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l > -- *Theopolisme**, Account Creation Team* *http://enwp.org/wiki/User:Theopolisme*<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Theopolisme>
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