A friend has a smartphone and runs one of the offline availiable versions (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unterwegs) on it. I just have a "normal" JAVA-enabled mobile phone and I want to use wikipedia there as well. So I thought about unsing a J2ME MIDlet to read wikipedia on my cellphone offline. I was searching for such a tool and after finding nothing, I thought about creating my own one. But it seems that the solution of the problem is much lousier then the problem itself. Have you aver thought about something like this? Does something like a wikipedia-midelt exist? What could be the chellanges? Where shall I start? Some help would be warmly welcome, Thomas
Hi there,
At Argentina we have a project to make a wikipedia offline. It will be made on python because it was started by the python group of Argentina.
The idea is to make a wikipedia offline with search capabilities. The target are schools without Internet access and cheap/old machines. It will fit on a CD and not requiere instalation.
The project is just starting. We are spanish speaking people (sorry for my english) so we will make it primary using spanish for documentation. But as they will be many programs we can make some programs using spanish and others using english.
We will take out comments. We will reduce quality of images and take out some of them. It will be all compressed.
We are at the design level for now.
Anyway, It will be super to join forces. Are our projects compatible? Can python run on a mobile?
Saludos,
Carlos
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