In all frankness, I don't see how can it be complicated or mind-blowing to
generate a HTML dump when the software is there already to produce a
wikimarkup one.
WikiMarkup dumps are of very limited use and mainly to yourselves alone.
No need to tell me to go solve my problems myself, it's what I've been
doing all the time.
2012/9/12 Emmanuel Engelhart <emmanuel(a)engelhart.org>
Dear Roberto
Le 09/09/2012 20:34, Roberto Flores a écrit :
I have developed an offline Wikipedia, Wikibooks,
Wiktionary, etc. app
for
the iPhone, which does a somewhat decent job at
interpreting the wiki
markup into HTML.
Great idea, but why reinventing the wheel concerning the format and not
using the open and inter-operable ZIM format pushed by the movement:
*
http://www.openzim.org
We already have a few open-source readers and contents:
*
http://www.kiwix.org
*
http://cip.github.com/WikiOnBoard
However, there are too many templates for me to
program (not to mention,
it's a moving target).
Without converting these templates, many articles are simply unreadable
and
useless.
Could you please provide HTML dumps (I mean, with the templates
pre-processed into HTML, everything else the same as now) every 3 or 4
months?
Or alternatively, could you make the template API available so I could
import it in my program?
The way you want to do it can not really work for the reasons other
people have alreday explained. There are Wikimedians whove have been
involved with such topics since years ; why not talking with them before
starting your project? We have a dedicated mailing list, you are welcome
on it:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l
Regards
Emmanuel