Evopedia
Evopedia is an offline Wikipedia viewer. It allows to search for articles based on their title or the geographic location on a map. If you are online, even images are displayed.
Apart from the software you also need to download a specially prepared dump of the articles available here.
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Dumps
Dumping Wikipedia is a very time-consuming task. Please be patient or help creating the dumps.
Available dumps:
- German Wikipedia, 2009-12-23 (1.5 GB) (some articles seem to be missing, but still almost complete and usable.)
Dump Installation
Extract one (or more) of the .zip-Files to a directory on your device and select it from within evopedia. The dump that is used can be changed using the (second) link at the top-left of the search screen.
Creating a Wikipedia Dump
Creating a Wikipedia dump is unfortunately a rather lengthy process (some days). If you have any suggestions for speeding it up, please step forward.
1. install needed software (please add packages if I forgot some):
apt-get install php5-cli python mysql-server mysql-client wget zip tidy git
2. download evopedia source code
git clone git://github.com/crei/evopedia.git
3. adjust settings
set php's memory_limit to some higher value (128 MB) in /etc/php5/cli/php.ini (or similar)
create empty mysql database
edit paths and database settings in dumpscripts/createdump.sh
change the dump language (bottom of dumpscripts/createdump.sh)
4. start the dump process
call createdump.sh