Re: Can OM's wiki be used offline?

2008-07-16 Thread matt joyce
That look so neat. 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 kin

Re: Wishlist Re: Can OM's wiki be used offline?

2008-07-16 Thread Joachim Steiger
Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Dear Syadmins, look below > >> I, like others, agree that a mobile version of the OM wiki would be >> invaluable. I can't imagine the strain on the wiki server from everyone >> suddenly doing recursive wget launches ;o) well... google does that all the time (indexing) ;

Re: Can OM's wiki be used offline?

2008-07-15 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
yet another alternative, which I've tried but failed on the first attempt: import wiki.openmoko.org into tiddlywiki. Apparently there is an adapter for mediawiki but it failed to work for me (I sent a request to dev list as well as to the author, so who knows). More information about tiddlywiki (w

Re: Can OM's wiki be used offline?

2008-07-15 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
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

Re: Can OM's wiki be used offline?

2008-07-15 Thread Jay Vaughan
>> 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. > > Please do package

Re: Can OM's wiki be used offline?

2008-07-15 Thread Brian C
john wrote: > 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. Please do pac

Re: Can OM's wiki be used offline?

2008-07-15 Thread john
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 ove

Re: Can OM's wiki be used offline?

2008-07-14 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
yeap -- this one would be sufficient for 99% of usecases I see ;-) nice catch. Hopefully admins will see this thread (from my previous follow-up CCed to them) On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, ian douglas wrote: > Maybe we could get someone at OpenMoko to install a plugin for MediaWiki > and export the conten

Wishlist Re: Can OM's wiki be used offline?

2008-07-14 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Dear Syadmins, look below > I, like others, agree that a mobile version of the OM wiki would be > invaluable. I can't imagine the strain on the wiki server from everyone > suddenly doing recursive wget launches ;o) exactly my point. unfortunately mokopedia * was wikipedia DB dumps oriented (thu

Re: Can OM's wiki be used offline?

2008-07-14 Thread ian douglas
Maybe we could get someone at OpenMoko to install a plugin for MediaWiki and export the content every night as a cron job on their web server: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DumpHTML ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmo

Re: Can OM's wiki be used offline?

2008-07-14 Thread ian douglas
Matt Joyce wrote: > > mokopedia brings the whole wikipedia to your openmoko phone even while > being offline because all articles will reside on an attached microSD card. > http://projects.openmoko.org/projects/mokopedia/ Is this project still being maintained though? The latest tarball and news

Re: Can OM's wiki be used offline?

2008-07-14 Thread Matt Joyce
mokopedia brings the whole wikipedia to your openmoko phone even while being offline because all articles will reside on an attached microSD card. http://projects.openmoko.org/projects/mokopedia/ On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Kurt Snieckus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GNU wget can recurse and

Re: Can OM's wiki be used offline?

2008-07-14 Thread Kurt Snieckus
GNU wget can recurse and download a site. http://www.editcorp.com/Personal/Lars_Appel/wget/wget_3.html http://blog.theunixgeek.org/?p=18 -Kurt On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Hi All, > > In the sight of upcoming delivery of our 10-pack, we wanted to get ready > to do

Can OM's wiki be used offline?

2008-07-14 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
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 coul