On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Guaka wrote:
Not sure exactly where this mail comes from (/me perplex)...
(sorry, dates seemed tight)
but text-only encyclopedia, though safer, is a bit restricted :-(
Often people are looking for guarantees, especially around (proveable) CD distributions.
Text guarantees no bad pictures (whatever they are).
For text-only: check out wik2dict and dict. dict is a client/server hypertext protocol. wik2dict converts Mediawiki SQL dumps into the (gzipped) dict format.
I actually would prefer we set up a system with taggued pages than to strip all images :-( but well... it takes less room
I've actually been thinking about doing something like Tomeraider does. Maybe there is more interest in this. I think it's ugly that people are kind of forced to use a proprietary format to have Wikipedia on their PDAs.
I bought the memory stick for my PDA, (for wikipedia), and read the howto page. I could do it myself, but maybe it is worth the money to buy Tomeraider's solution.
On another note, we ( http://www.slug.org.za/ ) installed Linux Thin Client labs in ten schools today, which included a March snapshot of en wikipedia (including pictures).
This was mostly possible because the 15 Gig required (pictures) could be carried to the school on a hard drive (the server pre-installation).
These are for schools presently without Internet access.
Cheers, Andy!