Re: [WikimediaMobile] Thinking about offline search within our native apps

kiwix and Zim format? Looking at the Kiwix app for Android, it doesn't seem to have full-text search within articles (unless I missed it). I assume that this was left out of the Android version for performance reasons. So, this is precisely the problem that would need to be solved... -Dmitry On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 3:05 PM, rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner(a)gmail.com> wrote: > kiwix and Zim format? > > Rupert > On Sep 30, 2014 11:27 PM, "Tomasz Finc" <tfinc(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> As the zero team starts to think about pre-loaded content the question >> of how search will function within an off line environment has come >> up. While it'll be up to each individual community to think about the >> size of the pre-loaded we should think about these collections being >> longer than a user would want to scroll through given only our article >> title search. >> >> Thus i'm eager to get a discussion going abut how we would support the >> following users story >> >> "As a user who has a Wikipedia pre-loaded device with little or no >> internet connectivity, I would like to search by article text, so that >> I can find multiple articles that could be relevant to me" >> >> Given this, an article title search is not good enough. >> >> * What would we have to change about our underlying data storage >> architecture to do full text search? >> * How fast would it be? >> * Would it scale to 100's/100's/etc on articles ? >> * What would the user experience look like? >> ... >> >> * ... other bits i haven't thought about ? >> >> This is not at a resourced feature level discussion yet but I'd like >> to get some engineering thoughts on it before we get there. >> >> --tomasz >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mobile-l mailing list >> Mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > >