Hello.
As Med mentioned in a mail in reply to Magnus, he & I are working on a
project called 'wikirover' (exists on sourceforge, empty for now).
Not very advanced yet, but you never know :p
I think some people may be interested, so i'll try to explain what we
have in mind.
The aim will be, ultimately, to make an offline Wikipedia, that could
be distributed on CD/DVD/...
But not necessarily the whole encyclopedia, a subpart would do it
(sports? movies? you name it).
The core will be a C++ library. It'll have tools to store raw articles
(and history) in an sqlite database, parse'em to different formats
(html first, then maybe others). Also search capabilities.
Maybe classes to access articles from live Wikipedia, mysql server,
and/or database dump.
Then an application that'll actually display articles, from local
database. It'll use different raw articles sources, and merge that
(like: first download 'movie' database, then 'actors/actresses', it'll
merge & make correct links between topics). With also update
capability (from live Wikipedia? dump? why not :p), things like that
(basically, things you'd expect from a regular encyclopedia).
And, potentially, a tool to manage those theme-related bases.
We'll try to make it crossplatform (we can test on Linux & Windows).
Library will use platform independant code, applications probably
wxWidgets (depends, nothing is sure yet :p)
Nicolas