Dear Roberto
Le 09/09/2012 20:34, Roberto Flores a écrit :
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.
Great idea, but why reinventing the wheel concerning the format and not using the open and inter-operable ZIM format pushed by the movement: * http://www.openzim.org
We already have a few open-source readers and contents: * http://www.kiwix.org * http://cip.github.com/WikiOnBoard
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.
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? Or alternatively, could you make the template API available so I could import it in my program?
The way you want to do it can not really work for the reasons other people have alreday explained. There are Wikimedians whove have been involved with such topics since years ; why not talking with them before starting your project? We have a dedicated mailing list, you are welcome on it: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l
Regards Emmanuel