On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 20:37:17 +0100 Markus Baumeister markus@spampit.retsiemuab.de wrote:

Hello,

I have modified Alfio Puglisi's wiki2static script and added a few of my own to generate a static compressed version of wikipedia which should be viewable on any UNIX-PDA featureing a webserver and a sh-compatible shell. Compression works quite nicely, I currently have the German and the English content (including media and TeX images) taking up up ca. 600MB on a microdrive. Since TomeRaider is not available for Linux-based PDAs this should fill the last non-Wikipedia hole. See http://www.retsiemuab.de/wiki2zaurus .

Two questions:

1. Can some people (preferably with UNIX PDAs and desktops) check if the

descriptions on the above site are understandable and work for them also?

It is possible to have an all in one package ? To download to the zaurus. Does it works on Openzaurus ? I'm ready to try, I would prefer a french edition :)

2. Should I put a link on a wikipedia page and if yes on which one?

"Wikipedia:Database download" has the links to the wiki2static script but I would rather not be listed on a page about how to get database dumps. Without necessary bandwidth for offering dumps I'd prefer to distribute only scripts.

Do it and if somebody doesn't like he will remove it :)

Shaihulud