Mokopedia

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Mokopedia intends to make wikipedia accessible on your phone even without being online because all articles will reside bzipped on an SD Card.
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Mokopedia makes wikipedia accessible on your openmoko phone even without being online because all articles will reside in a compressed filesystem (squashFS) on your SD Card.
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It's now rewritten in python and uses pythons gtkhtml2 binding (not available yet on openmoko - fgau is working on it) and bzip2 binding to do everything the former version in c did.
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Please submit more feature ideas!
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You will have to install lighttpd to access a local python script with the web browser of your choice. This script will offer you a text box to easily search your stored articles.
  
 
==Feature Ideas==
 
==Feature Ideas==
 
Please feel free to add anything that comes to your mind.
 
Please feel free to add anything that comes to your mind.
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*show articles depending on location (GPS)
 
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*list with
 
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**recently viewed articles (history)
 
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**most viewed articles
 
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*search articles "as you type" (benchmarks on a neo with searching in large text files proove such things to be impossible due to processor slowness)
 
 
*it will have no pictures - not enough room on any storage media
 
*it will have no pictures - not enough room on any storage media
 
*tex forumlas could be generated with a local LaTeX install but this may be too big for the phone
 
*tex forumlas could be generated with a local LaTeX install but this may be too big for the phone
 
*all wikipedia versions except the english one will fit on a 1GB SDCard (tested with the second largest wikipedia (german)) - compressability tests with en-wiki in progress
 
*all wikipedia versions except the english one will fit on a 1GB SDCard (tested with the second largest wikipedia (german)) - compressability tests with en-wiki in progress
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*all articles will be bzipt in seperate files - 7zip/lzma only performs better than bzip with really big files due to it's dictionary and it's also much slower and eats much more memory
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*support for stripped down wikipedia versions (100MB, 500MB)
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*new wikipedia versions can be obtained from here [http://static.wikipedia.org/] and can then be optimzed with a perl script I wrote
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*option for varying the text size
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*settings dialog
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**set articles location
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*forward/back buttons
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*bookmarks
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*support for stripped down wikipedia versions (100MB, 500MB) with only the most viewed articles for users with storage restrictions
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**if an article is not available locally - ask the user if it should download it form the web
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*Scan SMS and emails for keywords of current events (extracted from a news feed) or foreign words and automagically crossreference them to the respective article of the offline wikipedia.
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==Development Status==
 
==Development Status==
  
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*UTF-8 capable article viewer
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*I finished writing the perl and bash scripts for optimizing your wikipedia html dump. To obtain the dumps goto http://static.wikipedia.org. The scripts will soon be available on the mokopedia projects site on projects.openmoko.org.
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*read bzip2 compressed articles
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*lighttpd is working on openmoko as a light webserver without too much overhead
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*python script for accessing the articles is nearly finished
  
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You can obtain the current version of the little mokopedia python script on http://www.rabenfrost.net/mokopedia.py. The article which is shown is hardcoded. The demo article is an optimzed version of "Alexander the Great http://www.rabenfrost.net/Alexander_the_Great.html.bz2
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==Credits==
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A big thank to the following people:
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* kahuna for bringing me back to the ideo of mokopedia as served html to a browser of your choice
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* fgau for trying out everything I wrote on his neo
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* thomasg for suggesting the use of a compressed file system
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* everyone on #neo1973germany
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All you guys helped me a lot!!
  
 
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Revision as of 12:51, 17 September 2007

TODO: Support this project by adding ideas and comments to the discussion page and edit this article (See: To-Do List)

Mokopedia makes wikipedia accessible on your openmoko phone even without being online because all articles will reside in a compressed filesystem (squashFS) on your SD Card.

You will have to install lighttpd to access a local python script with the web browser of your choice. This script will offer you a text box to easily search your stored articles.

Feature Ideas

Please feel free to add anything that comes to your mind.

  • it will have no pictures - not enough room on any storage media
  • tex forumlas could be generated with a local LaTeX install but this may be too big for the phone
  • all wikipedia versions except the english one will fit on a 1GB SDCard (tested with the second largest wikipedia (german)) - compressability tests with en-wiki in progress
  • support for stripped down wikipedia versions (100MB, 500MB)

Development Status

  • I finished writing the perl and bash scripts for optimizing your wikipedia html dump. To obtain the dumps goto http://static.wikipedia.org. The scripts will soon be available on the mokopedia projects site on projects.openmoko.org.
  • lighttpd is working on openmoko as a light webserver without too much overhead
  • python script for accessing the articles is nearly finished

Credits

A big thank to the following people:

  • kahuna for bringing me back to the ideo of mokopedia as served html to a browser of your choice
  • fgau for trying out everything I wrote on his neo
  • thomasg for suggesting the use of a compressed file system
  • everyone on #neo1973germany

All you guys helped me a lot!!

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TODO: Support this project by adding ideas and comments to the discussion page and edit this article (See: To-Do List)

Mokopedia makes wikipedia accessible on your openmoko phone even without being online because all articles will reside in a compressed filesystem (squashFS) on your SD Card.

You will have to install lighttpd to access a local python script with the web browser of your choice. This script will offer you a text box to easily search your stored articles.

Feature Ideas

Please feel free to add anything that comes to your mind.

  • it will have no pictures - not enough room on any storage media
  • tex forumlas could be generated with a local LaTeX install but this may be too big for the phone
  • all wikipedia versions except the english one will fit on a 1GB SDCard (tested with the second largest wikipedia (german)) - compressability tests with en-wiki in progress
  • support for stripped down wikipedia versions (100MB, 500MB)

Development Status

  • I finished writing the perl and bash scripts for optimizing your wikipedia html dump. To obtain the dumps goto http://static.wikipedia.org. The scripts will soon be available on the mokopedia projects site on projects.openmoko.org.
  • lighttpd is working on openmoko as a light webserver without too much overhead
  • python script for accessing the articles is nearly finished

Credits

A big thank to the following people:

  • kahuna for bringing me back to the ideo of mokopedia as served html to a browser of your choice
  • fgau for trying out everything I wrote on his neo
  • thomasg for suggesting the use of a compressed file system
  • everyone on #neo1973germany

All you guys helped me a lot!!