I think there is a slight misunderstanding on what my app is and does:
It is an offline Wikipedia (et al) viewer that contains all content articles in the dump. Everything must be contained within the app's code and the processed dump files downloadable from my own site (gearapps.com)
Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse...
My app is supposed to be fully offline. It does not make any network connections, thus I cant use the online api. I need to have the template-processing code within the app or the templates pre-processed into the dump.
Also a 7GB app is something you want to CLEARLY state as eating up that much device space/ download bandwidth is probably a problem for most users
The files are provided on my own site, so it doesn't add any load to Wikipedia's servers. The file sizes are viewable upon trying to download them.
2012/9/9 John phoenixoverride@gmail.com
Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse it is exactly what you are looking for. Also a 7GB app is something you want to CLEARLY state as eating up that much device space/ download bandwidth is probably a problem for most users
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Roberto Flores f.roberto.isc@gmail.com wrote:
Allow me to reply to each point:
(By the way, my offline app is called WikiGear Offline:) http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wikigear-offline/id453614487?mt=8
Templates are dumped just like all other pages are...
Yes, but that's only a text description of what the template does. Code must be written to actually process them into HTML. There are tens of thousands of them, and some can't be even programmed by me (e.g., Wiktionary's conjugation templates) If they were already pre-processed into HTML inside the articles'
contents,
that would solve all of my problems.
what purpose would the dump serve? you dont want to keep the full dump on the device.
I made an indexing program that selects only content articles (namespaces included) and compresses it all to a reasonable size (e.g. about 7gb for the English Wikipedia)
How would this template API function? What does import mean?
By this I mean, a set of functions written in some computer language to which I could send them the template within the wiki markup and receive HTML to display.
Wikipedia does this whenever a page is requested, but I ignore the exact mechanism through which it's performed. Maybe you just need to make that code publicly available, and I'll try to make it work with my application somehow.
2012/9/9 Jeremy Baron jeremy@tuxmachine.com
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Roberto Flores <f.roberto.isc@gmail.com
wrote:
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. 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.
Templates are dumped just like all other pages are. Have you found them in the dumps? which dump are you looking at right now?
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?
3 or 4 month frequency seems unlikely to be useful to many people. Otherwise no comment.
Or alternatively, could you make the template API available so I could import it in my program?
How would this template API function? What does import mean?
-Jeremy
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