On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 11:59, Erik Zachte wrote:
I have converted the whole English Wikipedia to a TomeRaider file. The complete file is now available on my Pocket PC.
Cool!
I chose to strip all meta info (discussions, user pages, etc).
Be sure to include a URL to the original site for each page.
Images are not supported.
Note that some images include alt text, which should be preserved:
[[Image:filename.ext|Alt text if image not available]]
I wrote a perl script to accomplish this. Unfortunately I do not have the web space or bandwidth to offer the file for download from my site.
So either any user or the Wikipedia support team will have to redo the conversion. Conversion to a TomeRaider input file is completely automated. Conversion plus import in TomeRaider takes about 90 minutes on my 500 MHz PC.
Creating the TomeRaider file seems to require proprietary Windows-only software, but if there's interest we could periodically produce the converted dumps which can be used as input to it.
For screen shots and additional info about how to do this yourself: http://members.ams.chello.nl/epzachte/Wikipedia
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)