On 26.01.2015 13:09, Petr Bena wrote:
1) There may be no ZIM's for the wiki they want to use and they have
no idea how to create one. They won't be able to use kiwix here.
We propose a ZIM file for most of the important projects. The problem
is that we still don't have the resources to
Dear Petr
On 23.01.2015 11:59, Petr Bena wrote:
Some of you probably know kiwix - kiwix.org which is offline wikipedia
reader. I think the idea of this reader is cool, most of you probably
sometimes wanted to access wikipedia while being offline somewhere,
but couldn't. Kiwix can help with
That is still IMHO highly unusable, let me explain why:
Let's define USER as a computer illiterate that has absolutely no
knowledge of how computers work. They got their PC (or mobile) and
want to run offline reader of either wikipedia or their favorite wiki,
which can be non-wmf thing.
Petr, do you think it would be an option to use git version control as a
storage format instead of openzim? Which would facilitate edit and merge
back changes?
Rupert
On Jan 23, 2015 11:59 AM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I know most of you hate reinventing a wheel so I first
I don't really know, it is technically possible but probably not
suitable. I don't want to create offline wiki. Just a reader of a
wiki, so no complex versioning is required for that.
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 6:00 PM, rupert THURNER
rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote:
Petr, do you think it would be
The storage format is very efficient and there is a c library for it :
https://libgit2.github.com
It should be not necessary to create complex versioning around it.
You plan to store html or wikitext?
Rupert
On Jan 25, 2015 6:37 PM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't really know, it
Either only wikitext or both, at least until I would get some wikitext
to html convertor lib
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 7:41 PM, rupert THURNER
rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote:
The storage format is very efficient and there is a c library for it :
https://libgit2.github.com
It should be not
Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com writes:
web-app for offline use? :o
Maybe they have a small webserver set up in a remote place with only
sporadic Internet access? Maybe they're running a Mozilla's Firefox OS
on a phone and calling apps for that OS web apps?
--
Mark A. Hershberger
NicheWork LLC
There's also XOWA, and the dev answered my question about the pros and cons
of XOWA vs Kiwix, at
https://www.reddit.com/r/
https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/2f7lzi/your_own_wikipedia/ck6oa07
wikipedia
https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/2f7lzi/your_own_wikipedia/ck6oa07
Yes, this. There is nothing contradictory with web app and offline. It
works fine in chrome and other mobile browsers, although we deployed it
with mobile Firefox for Android.
--scott
On Jan 24, 2015 3:00 PM, Daniel Friesen dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com
wrote:
On 2015-01-24 2:38 PM, Mark A.
On 2015-01-24 2:38 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com writes:
web-app for offline use? :o
Maybe they have a small webserver set up in a remote place with only
sporadic Internet access? Maybe they're running a Mozilla's Firefox OS
on a phone and calling apps for that
web-app for offline use? :o
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 5:54 PM, C. Scott Ananian
canan...@wikimedia.org wrote:
FWIW I also wrote a web app called Nell's Wikipedia which behaves as you
propose:
https://github.com/cscott/nell-wikipedia
If you wanted to hack on it, it could use a bit of love.
FWIW I also wrote a web app called Nell's Wikipedia which behaves as you
propose:
https://github.com/cscott/nell-wikipedia
If you wanted to hack on it, it could use a bit of love.
--scott
On Jan 23, 2015 7:55 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok these are all planned to be
Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com writes:
That suck. Especially with GPRS internet and similar connectivity and
it also suck because mobile phones don't even have space for so much
data. My idea is to create app similar to kiwix, that would use SQLite
DB and using wikipedia API it would (slowly,
Ok, see my responses bellow. I am interested if there are some users
who actually do use offline wikipedia and how would they like this new
approach.
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
You don't need a new application for this, you just need some
Ok these are all planned to be implemented solutions that do not
work now
You didn't even read, did you? Let me quote:
I use this code yes and it works
Nemo
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You don't need a new application for this, you just need some upgrades
to the ZIM generation pipeline. How about sending patches for
https://sourceforge.net/p/kiwix/other/ci/master/tree/mwoffliner to
generate category-based ZIM files and the like?
Customisation possibilities used to be better
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