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 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. 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) 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(a)tuxmachine.com> > On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Roberto Flores <f.roberto.isc(a)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? > > > -Jeremy > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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) 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. 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(a)gmail.com> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

page) is just absurd. There's enormous value in the HTML dumps. This subject came up in December 2011 and from the comments in that thread, it seemed as though the only reason the HTML dumps have been updated is that nobody has run the relevant script. MZMcBride

K. Peachey wrote: Can you elaborate on this? Is there anything actually stopping the extension (or rather the script) from being run? Of course every piece of software has bugs or feature requests, but if there are blockers to actually running this script, can you point me to the list of these (or more preferably add them as blockers to bug 15017)? For context, "E:DumpHTML" refers to <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DumpHTML>, a pseudo-extension (quasi-extension?) used to generate HTML dumps.

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.