I thought this is something solved for years now with
applications like
kiwix and Zim format?
Looking at the Kiwix app for Android, it doesn't seem to have full-text
search within articles (unless I missed it). I assume that this was left
out of the Android version for performance reasons. So, this is precisely
the problem that would need to be solved...
-Dmitry
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 3:05 PM, rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
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" <tfinc(a)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
>>
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