On 21/03/2008, jidanni@jidanni.org jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
Also what drives one nuts reading MediaWiki wikis offline here on my PDA is e.g., passages like:
There is still an emphasis on business goals, namely CVP analysis[1] when determining strategy and the overall effectiveness of marketing campaigns.
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So what does CVP mean? Tune in next week to find out. Yup, one has to return all the way down the mountain to the base station with the Internet connection just to find out what those lousy three letters meant.
And I bet an article and its 15 aliases all look exactly as tasty to search engines, unless one makes a sitemap for them.
Wikipedia articles simply aren't written with offline reading of individual articles in mind. That's not the fault of MediaWiki, it's simply the way it's being used. If you want to read articles offline, you need to download all the articles that are linked to as well (for a certain number of levels, depending on how thorough you want to be).