In all frankness, I don't see how can it be complicated or mind-blowing to generate a HTML dump when the software is there already to produce a wikimarkup one. WikiMarkup dumps are of very limited use and mainly to yourselves alone.
No need to tell me to go solve my problems myself, it's what I've been doing all the time. 2012/9/12 Emmanuel Engelhart <[email protected]> > Dear Roberto > > Le 09/09/2012 20:34, Roberto Flores a écrit : > > I have developed an offline Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wiktionary, etc. app > for > > the iPhone, which does a somewhat decent job at interpreting the wiki > > markup into HTML. > > Great idea, but why reinventing the wheel concerning the format and not > using the open and inter-operable ZIM format pushed by the movement: > * http://www.openzim.org > > We already have a few open-source readers and contents: > * http://www.kiwix.org > * http://cip.github.com/WikiOnBoard > > > However, there are too many templates for me to program (not to mention, > > it's a moving target). > > Without converting these templates, many articles are simply unreadable > and > > useless. > > > > Could you please provide HTML dumps (I mean, with the templates > > pre-processed into HTML, everything else the same as now) every 3 or 4 > > months? > > Or alternatively, could you make the template API available so I could > > import it in my program? > > The way you want to do it can not really work for the reasons other > people have alreday explained. There are Wikimedians whove have been > involved with such topics since years ; why not talking with them before > starting your project? We have a dedicated mailing list, you are welcome > on it: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l > > Regards > Emmanuel > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
