Offline Wikipedia reader - Revision history

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Myfanwy at 02:12, 12 January 2009

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Myfanwy at 02:05, 12 January 2009

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Myfanwy at 01:48, 12 January 2009

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Myfanwy: /* Development status */

2009-01-12T01:45:08Z

‎Development status

Myfanwy at 01:32, 12 January 2009

2009-01-12T01:32:16Z

Myfanwy at 01:11, 12 January 2009

2009-01-12T01:11:07Z

Myfanwy: New page: Instructions can be found here: http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/buildWikipediaOffline.html Initial indexing should be carried out on a desktop/laptop, as the freerunner is not p...

2009-01-12T01:02:19Z

New page: Instructions can be found here: http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/buildWikipediaOffline.html Initial indexing should be carried out on a desktop/laptop, as the freerunner is not p...

New page

Instructions can be found here:
http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/buildWikipediaOffline.html

Initial indexing should be carried out on a desktop/laptop, as the freerunner is not powerful enough

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 {{application|offline wikipedia}}.
 The Offline Wikipedia reader is a set of scripts and programmes which can be used to display wikipedia pages without an internet connection.
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 In the future the software will be released as an ipk. Also a deb/rpm for a desktop distributions, to allow automatic download of the most recent wikipedia dump, with a diff utility to allow it to be updated and re-indexed.
 [[Category:Applications]]

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-{{application|offline wikipedia}}
+{{application|offline wikipedia}}.
 The Offline Wikipedia reader is a set of scripts and programmes which can be used to display wikipedia pages without an internet connection.
-The software functions by running a lightweight webserver on the phone, and using php to present the pages, which are then viewed using any web browser.
+The English Wikipedia (text only) is around 6GB including indices, so the entire content can be stored on one 8GB card. The German Wikipedia is approximately 1/4 the size, so can be stored on a correspondingly smaller card; ditto for other languages. Asthe file is so large, you may want to remove the microSD card from the Freerunner and use a card reader to transfer the files; copying them over USB will take several hours.
 Instructions can be found here:
 http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/buildWikipediaOffline.html
-Before the pages can be displayed, an indexer needs to be run - this should be carried out on a desktop/laptop, as the freerunner is not powerful enough - this takes approximately one hour on a dual-core 1.1GHz cpu, 1.5GB RAM laptop.
+All Wikipedia pages are contained in the Wikipedia page dump - [http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20081008/]. The file needed is called 'pages-articles.xml.bz2', and the most recent is 4.1GB
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-Dependencies (php, perl ,python) are then installed on the freerunner, and the index and database copied to the freerunner, along with the web server.
-All Wikipedia pages are downloaded from the Wikipedia page dump - [http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20081008/]. The file needed is called 'pages-articles.xml.bz2', and the most recent is 4.1GB
+Before the pages can be displayed, an indexer needs to be run - this should be carried out on a desktop/laptop, as it would take many hours on the Freerunner; this takes approximately one hour on a dual-core 1.1GHz cpu, 1.5GB RAM laptop.
-The English Wikipedia (text only) is around 6GB including indices, so the entire content can be stored on one 8GB card. The German Wikipedia is approximately 1/4 the size, so can be stored on a correspondingly smaller card; ditto for other languages.
+Dependencies (php, perl, python) are then installed on the freerunner, and the index and database copied across, along with the included web server.
 =Development status=
-At present, a single tar.bz is downloaded from the site above, the pages extract downloaded and copied to the correct location, and the indexing process run. Dependencies (php, perl ,python) are then installed on the freerunner, and the index and database copied to the freerunner, along with the web server.
+At present, a single tar.bz is downloaded from the site above, the pages extract downloaded and copied to the correct location, and the indexing process run.
 In the future the software will be released as an ipk. Also a deb/rpm for a desktop distributions, to allow automatic download of the most recent wikipedia dump, with a diff utility to allow it to be updated and re-indexed.

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 Instructions can be found here:
 http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/buildWikipediaOffline.html
-Initial indexing should be carried out on a desktop/laptop, as the freerunner is not powerful enough
+Before the pages can be displayed, an indexer needs to be run - this should be carried out on a desktop/laptop, as the freerunner is not powerful enough - this takes approximately one hour on a dual-core 1.1GHz cpu, 1.5GB RAM laptop.
-{{application|offline wikipedia}}
+Dependencies (php, perl ,python) are then installed on the freerunner, and the index and database copied to the freerunner, along with the web server.
-This project provides software to store the entirety of Wikipedia (any language) locally on a Linux device.
+All Wikipedia pages are downloaded from the Wikipedia page dump - [http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20081008/]. The file needed is called 'pages-articles.xml.bz2', and the most recent is 4.1GB
-−
-All Wikipedia pages are downloaded from the Wikipedia page dump - [http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20081008/]. The files needed is called 'pages-articles.xml.bz2', and the most recent is 4.1GB
 The English Wikipedia (text only) is around 6GB including indices, so the entire content can be stored on one 8GB card. The German Wikipedia is approximately 1/4 the size, so can be stored on a correspondingly smaller card; ditto for other languages.
 =Development status=
 At present, a single tar.bz is downloaded from the site above, the pages extract downloaded and copied to the correct location, and the indexing process run. Dependencies (php, perl ,python) are then installed on the freerunner, and the index and database copied to the freerunner, along with the web server.
-At present, a single tar.bz is downloaded from the site above, the pages extract downloaded and copied to the correct location, and the indexing process run (takes approximately one hour on a dual-core 1.1GHz cpu, 1.5GB RAM laptop). Dependencies (php, perl ,python) are then installed on the freerunner, and the index and database copied to the freerunner, along with the web server.
 In the future the software will be released as an ipk. Also a deb/rpm for a desktop distributions, to allow automatic download of the most recent wikipedia dump, with a diff utility to allow it to be updated and re-indexed.

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 All Wikipedia pages are downloaded from the Wikipedia page dump - [http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20081008/]. The files needed is called 'pages-articles.xml.bz2', and the most recent is 4.1GB
-For more info visit the official website: http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/buildWikipediaOffline.html
+The English Wikipedia (text only) is around 6GB including indices, so the entire content can be stored on one 8GB card. The German Wikipedia is approximately 1/4 the size, so can be stored on a correspondingly smaller card; ditto for other languages.
-−
-The English Wikipedia (text only) is around 6GB, so the entire content can be stored on one 8GB device. The German Wikipedia is approximately 1/4 the size, so can be stored on a correspondingly smaller card; ditto for other languages
 The software functions by running a lightweight webserver on the phone, and using php to present the pages, which are then viewed using any web browser.

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 =Development status=
-At present, a single tar.bz is downloaded from the site above, the pages extract downloaded and copied to the correct location, and the indexing process run (takes approximately one hour on a dual-core 1.1GHz cpu, 1.5GB RAM laptop)
+At present, a single tar.bz is downloaded from the site above, the pages extract downloaded and copied to the correct location, and the indexing process run (takes approximately one hour on a dual-core 1.1GHz cpu, 1.5GB RAM laptop). Dependencies (php, perl ,python) are then installed on the freerunner, and the index and database copied to the freerunner, along with the web server.
-In the future the software will be released as an ipk, with an automatic download of the most recent wikipedia dump, and a diff utility to allow it to be updated.
+In the future the software will be released as an ipk. Also a deb/rpm for a desktop distributions, to allow automatic download of the most recent wikipedia dump, with a diff utility to allow it to be updated and re-indexed.
 <onlyinclude>
 {{ApplicationBox|
-Name=[[Mokopedia]]|
+Name=[[Offline Wikipedia reader]]|
 Description=Read entirety of Wikipedia offline|
 Screenshot=offline_wikipedia.png|