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 -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
