[wikireader] Images on the WR not so imposible :P [was [wikireader]Error on parsing the spanish wikipedia]

[Jörn Hagen]

hi,

the wish is clear:), but the images on wikipedia are slightly
problematic, see

 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#Images_and_uploaded_files

and

 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights#Non-free_materials_and_special_requirements

on the other hand, see:):

  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikix

-Jörn


David Reyes Samblas Martinez wrote:
> 2009/10/31 Sean Moss-Pultz <sean at openmoko.com>:
>   
>> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Laszlo KREKACS
>> <laszlo.krekacs.list at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:22 PM, David Reyes Samblas Martinez
>>> <david at tuxbrain.com> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Are you uploading this changes to git? can I take a look?
>>>>         
>>> Btw is there any plan to implement images rendering?
>>>       
>> Math (images) are on our roadmap. Hopefully before the end of this
>> year. The screen is only 1bit. So anything else would look kinda
>> funny.
>>
>>  -Sean
>>     
> Well due I have clear than Internationalization and running other apps
> are totally posible and in fact it can be done without much hacking, I
> have spend some time investigating the posibility of  include image
> other than maths on the device and I think is at least more closer
> than it can seems.
> I have find a process[1] I think it can be industrialized to transform
> any image of the wikipedia to one more or less good to the device is
> clear than we can expect a real time 3D zoomable render on the WR but
> I think results are quite promising
>
> Just some questions, is hard to do a image viewer able to scroll
> vertically as we do in text?
> Any good tutorial of scripting using gimp?
>
> An now some numbers the average image are 10kb so with the hypotesis
> than there are one image per article (yes I know there articles with
> more than a image but there a lot of articles without images) there
> will be about 3.000.000 images so 30Gb of images.... :P there are any
> 32Gb uSD cards out there?
> I have to do a more in depth analisis on how many images(meaningful)
> are there using the data on the dumps of wikipedia  so we will see.
>
> [1]http://www.tuxbrain.com/en/content/images-wikireader-posible
>
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