Hi SJ

Emmanuel :

A simple offline reader ready in time for wikimania would be excellent. What language are you working in? Is there a public code repository?

I work on it. I guess a simple viewer with a good looking french dump of Wikipedia will be done. There is currently no public code repository.

Unfortunatly, I invested the most of my time to get a good static HTML dump the last 2 months. But now this problem is more or less solved for me and I will have more time to focuse me on the soft.

The technologies are : * Mozilla framework : xulrunner (portable, skinable, easy to modify, extensible, plugins) * Xapian search engine * HTML dump

The soft is currently, not more than a simple HTMLviewer window. I work to integrate an existing search engine XAPIAN, that's mean making an XPCOM to embeded the library.

Some people at One Laptop per Child are working on an offline reader/writer for mediawiki style dumps in python; this will be used to read ebooks, other texts, and wiki dumps... perhaps some coding collaboration is possible, where the specific specs of different projects overlap.

Yes, could be interesting. I wrote a complete requirement document, but that's in french.

I proposed that we meet us, all people involved in HTML dumping and HTML based offline-reader development.

Such a meeting would be very interesting to: - know more exactly what is needed for such third use of Wikipedia content. - speak about how to achieve that - speak about the offline-reader soft... although the dedicated ml is very quite.... :(

Emmanuel