Can OM's wiki be used offline?

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

and there is an extension for mediawiki
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Hyper_Estraier

and I wonder if 
Intelligent web crawler
is intelligent enough that it could skip diffs from mediawiki online
wiki. Sure thing for within-site use, it should index everything, but if
once again it sounds like a warning to use it against wiki.openmoko.org
by eager users.

Although
Supporting P2P architecture
sounds cool, may be if moko-mesh comes to reality at some moment, such
indexing could be distributed and 'shared' among moko phones

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, john wrote:

> A project I was on had a similar requirement of being able to search
> and read documents offline on the iPhone *snarl*. Anyway, what I did
> was port an excellent open source search engine called hyper estraier
> [1] over to the iPhone and used that on various kinds of documents. As
> a test I indexed over 2000 PDFs from MIT OpenCourseWare. It works
> really well [2]. I used lighttpd for the web server. All these
> technologies will work fine on the 1973/Freerunner. If there is an
> interest in this I could package it up for Openmoko. There is also
> potential for developing a native GUI local search tool using hyper
> estraier because it comes with a C API and other language bindings.
> This would remove the web server dependency.

> John.

> [1] http://hyperestraier.sourceforge.net/
> [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKKlkcZ6vYo

> 2008/7/14 Yaroslav Halchenko <site-openmoko.org at onerussian.com>:
> > Hi All,

> > In the sight of upcoming delivery of our 10-pack, we wanted to get ready
> > to do some testing on the spot, ie when we get together and open our
> > boxes, to power then up and try to make sure that all of them work in
> > the 'similar' fashion (GPS, GSM, etc) so if there is a defective unit,
> > we could localize it easily since we will have a few of them and a few
> > of SIM cards to try ;-)

> > But if smth doesn't work, of cause, the best way is to lookup on the
> > wiki and we will not have (I think) internet connection on the spot. I
> > thought if it is possible to gently (smth not like wget -m
> > http://www.openmoko.org) obtain a copy of openmoko.org's mediawiki
> > content.

> > Brief googling lead me to few possible solutions (unfortunately
> > not non-intrusive into openmoko's wiki setup) such as

> > Mediawiki offline (thanks to Google Gears):
> > http://wiki.yobi.be/wiki/Mediawiki_LocalServer

> > But I wonder may be there is simpler/better ones like a dump of DB
> > without account information credentials, etc? Something like what
> > wikipedia offers
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
> > (which they actually closed and I see the reason with their sizes), but
> > they also seems to have a workaround
> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikix


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Yaroslav Halchenko
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Student  Ph.D. @ CS Dept. NJIT
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        101 Warren Str, Smith Hall, Rm 4-105, Newark NJ 07102
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