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d.h
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(Seems I can't delete posts. Hey, here's a new brainstorming idea for the KDE board: Add a delete button!)

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Some time ago I've converted Wikipedia to dict format via a wget --> bunzip --> sed --> dictfmt pipline, but I abandoned that approach since the dict format seems obsolete.

From my experience I can tell that the wiki dump contains a lot of data that is useless for an offline enzyklopedia, thus the actual size of the database can be dramatically reduced.

Nowadays I'd would strip off the useless data, convert all links, tables etc. to xml and import it into mysql. I wouldn't need a full app to access it, klipper and kdialog might be enough.
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Dante Ashton wrote:
So, in your idea, Lukas, lets walk through it.

I search for my home-town, information is gathered from Wikipedia and Wolfram/Alpha. A list of services, landmarks, etc, are provided by Google Maps, at the end of it I get;

Wolfram/Alpha's report on it's population, current time, current weather there, approximate elevation above sea-level, as well as a little marker showing it's position and the distance between it and two nearby major cities. Wikipedia provides me with cultural history and images, Google Maps provides me with a list of local services, including their phone numbers, URL's, and emails.


This is one of the most brilliant ideas I have ever heard! :D


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There is an application which provides the german wikipedia content offline. It is called tntreader, can read *.zeno files and makes them accessible for a webbrowser. Without images the german wikipedia zeno files are 4.2 GB. Then there is a version with all images as thumbnails (+ 3.3 GB) and all images with a maximum resolution of 1000x1000 pixels (+ 22 GB).
It would be awesome if somebody converted the english wikipedia to this format.
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Angel Blue01 wrote:
Dante Ashton wrote:
So, in your idea, Lukas, lets walk through it.

I search for my home-town, information is gathered from Wikipedia and Wolfram/Alpha. A list of services, landmarks, etc, are provided by Google Maps, at the end of it I get;

Wolfram/Alpha's report on it's population, current time, current weather there, approximate elevation above sea-level, as well as a little marker showing it's position and the distance between it and two nearby major cities. Wikipedia provides me with cultural history and images, Google Maps provides me with a list of local services, including their phone numbers, URL's, and emails.


This is one of the most brilliant ideas I have ever heard! :D


They missed off Flickr, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Kopete/Jabber integration, Geotagging in Nepomuk... oh, and I'd use OpenStreetMap/Marble integration instead of/by default/as well as Google Maps. ;)

It could pull in photos of the location you typed from Flickr, find people on Facebook/Myspace in Blackpool, do a twitter/identi.ca search for the location and showing relevant tweets in real-time, see contacts that have (I assume) been previously Geotagged in Kopete/KContactManager and show OpenDesktop.org people that are in/near that location. There's always room for more! :P


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gubu1353 wrote:Without images the german wikipedia zeno files are 4.2 GB

They probably don't compress it since even the complete articles dump is not that big. And as I said, a lot of it can be stripped of if one only wants to have the pure articles. The dict files, which are compressed, were around half the size of the articles dump if I remember correctly. Or were it 2/3?
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There is already an application hosted on kde-apps called wikipedia dump reader:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.ph ... tent=65244

however, he seems quite ubuntu focused and i really want to be able to use it on opensuse.
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Create offline Wikipedia reader.

Fri Oct 09, 2009 6:52 pm
Dante Ashton wrote:Yesss...I see where your going.

Why do I think that idea was partly inspired by Kiim, eh? :P

So, in your idea, Lukas, lets walk through it.

I search for my home-town, information is gathered from Wikipedia and Wolfram/Alpha. A list of services, landmarks, etc, are provided by Google Maps, at the end of it I get;

Wolfram/Alpha's report on it's population, current time, current weather there, approximate elevation above sea-level, as well as a little marker showing it's position and the distance between it and two nearby major cities. Wikipedia provides me with cultural history and images, Google Maps provides me with a list of local services, including their phone numbers, URL's, and emails.

Hmmm...that could be a VERY useful tool, especially for an information junkie like me. :P


Is this idea somewhere here on the forum? An application which in it's simplest form would try to connect information from different sources.... But have support for plugins customizing the parsing of a source. So if I have a wikipedia plugin, a "news from google plugin" and a id3 tag plugin activated and search for some active band I would get the wikipedia page about them, news about them from google and songs in my music library from them. Ah... just brainstormin' :P
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Create offline Wikipedia reader.

Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:38 pm
bratwurst wrote:
Is this idea somewhere here on the forum?


This one: brainstorm.php#idea61978


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