I thought this is something solved for years now with applications like kiwix and Zim format?
Rupert On Sep 30, 2014 11:27 PM, "Tomasz Finc" <tf...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > As the zero team starts to think about pre-loaded content the question > of how search will function within an off line environment has come > up. While it'll be up to each individual community to think about the > size of the pre-loaded we should think about these collections being > longer than a user would want to scroll through given only our article > title search. > > Thus i'm eager to get a discussion going abut how we would support the > following users story > > "As a user who has a Wikipedia pre-loaded device with little or no > internet connectivity, I would like to search by article text, so that > I can find multiple articles that could be relevant to me" > > Given this, an article title search is not good enough. > > * What would we have to change about our underlying data storage > architecture to do full text search? > * How fast would it be? > * Would it scale to 100's/100's/etc on articles ? > * What would the user experience look like? > ... > > * ... other bits i haven't thought about ? > > This is not at a resourced feature level discussion yet but I'd like > to get some engineering thoughts on it before we get there. > > --tomasz > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >
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