[Wikipedia-l] Do you want the complete Wikipedia on your handheld? Read here how to do this.

[Brion Vibber]

Erik has provided converted TomeRaider files of the English, Dutch, and
German wikipedias, which I have put up for public download at:

  http://www.wikipedia.org/tarballs/tomeraider/

(The files are compressed with bzip2.)

I'm sure Erik would appreciate feedback from any PDA users who try them
out! If there's interest, we can probably work out semiregular updates.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)


On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 11:59, Erik Zachte wrote:
> I have converted the whole English Wikipedia to a TomeRaider file.
> The complete file is now available on my Pocket PC. 
> 
> You will need a storage card for this: the file is roughly 100 Mb,
> contains 145000+ entries (including redirects) and 200 Mb of
> (compressed) text.
> I chose to strip all meta info (discussions, user pages, etc).
> 
> TomeRaider (shareware) is a blindingly fast text retrieval system for
> handhelds (Pocket PC, Palm*, and EPOC*) and MS Windows. Index lookup is
> sub second. Rendering very large articles or complex html tables may
> take a few seconds. Images are not supported. Hyperlinks are. Most html
> tags as well.
> 
> I wrote a perl script to accomplish this. Unfortunately I do not have
> the web space or bandwidth to offer the file for download from my site.
> 
> So either any user or the Wikipedia support team will have to redo the
> conversion. Conversion to a TomeRaider input file is completely
> automated. Conversion plus import in TomeRaider takes about 90 minutes
> on my 500 MHz PC.
> 
> For screen shots and additional info about how to do this yourself:
> http://members.ams.chello.nl/epzachte/Wikipedia
> 
> Erik Zachte
> 
> * Not tested. I only have a PPC.
> 
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