I wonder if we need to think of this from user POV:
What would they want to find
Where is it in the article
In order to do this we can look at the search results on mobile (and
especially where they are failing today without GS)
If we find out that most of this information for example is present in the
first paragraph... we may only need to index it. And it would also focus us
on improving summaries as a priority...
L
On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 1:56 AM, rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
how is this done in epub format?
rupert
On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:44 AM, renaud gaudin <rgaudin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Full text search engine was not left out for performance reasons but for
practical ones.
Yes, we don't want people to generate the index on their phone. Except
for
tiny tiny zim files, it would be too much CPU,
battery and time
consuming.
But we do want to add full text search to
Android.
It could work today but the search index is a (large) folder so it would
be
a pain to setup.
As soon as we integrate both the ZIM file and the index in a single file,
we'll enable full text search on the Android App.
Hope that helps,
renaud
On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com
wrote:
>
> Dmitry Brant, 01/10/2014 01:07:
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> Don't assume, ask Emmanuel (cc Offline-l).
> If I understand correctly, you're talking of small selections of
articles
> (hundreds or thousands). Making an index for
tens of GB of text takes
hours,
> so Kiwix doesn't always make one (on
desktop, you usually download the
> pre-made index). But for few articles, the problem is easier (and one
can
> also reduce compression).
> In general, I have no idea what it means that "zero team starts to think
> about pre-loaded content": sounds a lot like reinventing Kiwix, which
would
be a
disastrous idea. :)
Nemo
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