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