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Evopedia is an offline Wikipedia viewer. It allows to search for articles based on their title or the geographic location on a map. If there is a connection to the internet, even images are displayed. | Evopedia is an offline Wikipedia viewer. It allows to search for articles based on their title or the geographic location on a map. If there is a connection to the internet, 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 == | == Dumps == | ||
- | + | Dumping Wikipedia is a very time-consuming task. Please be patient or [http://dumpathome.evopedia.info help creating the dumps]. | |
- | + | Please report if you find errors in the dumps. | |
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- | + | '''Distributed dump processing''' | |
+ | * [http://dumpathome.evopedia.info/ Distributed dumping for evopedia at dumpathome]. | ||
- | + | '''New dumps:''' | |
+ | * [http://www.reitwiessner.de/openmoko/wikipedia_dumps/wikipedia_nl_2010-03-14.zip Dutch Wikipedia], 2010-03-14 (0.9 GB) | ||
+ | * [http://www.reitwiessner.de/openmoko/wikipedia_dumps/wikipedia_en_2010-01-16.tar.gz English Wikipedia], 2010-01-16 (8.1 GB), first dump made using the new distributed dump system, contains some minor errors | ||
+ | * [http://www.reitwiessner.de/openmoko/wikipedia_dumps/wikipedia_de_2010-01-17.zip German Wikipedia], 2010-01-17 (2.2 GB) | ||
+ | * [http://www.reitwiessner.de/openmoko/wikipedia_dumps/wikipedia_no_2010-03-14.zip Norsk (bokmål) Wikipedia], 2010-03-14 (0.3 GB) | ||
- | + | '''Converted dumps:''' | |
- | + | These dumps are from older versions of evopedia, some features may be missing. | |
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+ | * [http://www.reitwiessner.de/openmoko/wikipedia_dumps/wikipedia_nl_2009-10-16.zip Dutch Wikipedia], 2009-10-16 (0.8 GB) | ||
+ | * [http://www.reitwiessner.de/openmoko/wikipedia_dumps/wikipedia_en_2009-02-28.tar.bz2 English Wikipedia], 2009-02-28 (4.9 GB), please see above for more recent version | ||
+ | * [http://www.reitwiessner.de/openmoko/wikipedia_dumps/wikipedia_eo_2009-11-17.zip Esperanto Wikipedia], 2009-11-17 (0.1 GB) | ||
+ | * [http://www.reitwiessner.de/openmoko/wikipedia_dumps/wikipedia_fr_2009-10-11.zip French Wikipedia], 2009-10-11 (1.9 GB) | ||
+ | * [http://www.reitwiessner.de/openmoko/wikipedia_dumps/wikipedia_it_2009-11-09.zip Italian Wikipedia], 2009-11-09 (1.7 GB) | ||
+ | * [http://www.reitwiessner.de/openmoko/wikipedia_dumps/wikipedia_ja_2009-03-01.zip Japanese Wikipedia], 2009-03-01 (1.5 GB) (pages are a bit broken but content should be there) | ||
+ | * [http://www.reitwiessner.de/openmoko/wikipedia_dumps/wikipedia_es_2009-11-16.zip Spanish Wikipedia], 2009-11-16 (1.4 GB) | ||
== Dump Installation == | == Dump Installation == | ||
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== Tweaks == | == Tweaks == | ||
- | Evopedia creates a configuration file at | + | Evopedia creates a configuration file at /home/user/.evopediarc when it is first started. Most of the options are self-explanatory. |
By changing listen_address to 0.0.0.0 you (or anybody else, so be careful) can also access evopedia from a different computer using the url http://<ip adress of your device>:8080/ | By changing listen_address to 0.0.0.0 you (or anybody else, so be careful) can also access evopedia from a different computer using the url http://<ip adress of your device>:8080/ | ||
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==== 1. install needed software (please add packages if I forgot some): ==== | ==== 1. install needed software (please add packages if I forgot some): ==== | ||
- | + | apt-get install php5-cli php5-mysql python mysql-server mysql-client wget zip tidy git-core texlive texlive-math-extra | |
On some distributions, texlive must be replaced by tetex and texlive-math-extra by tetex-extra | On some distributions, texlive must be replaced by tetex and texlive-math-extra by tetex-extra | ||
==== 2. download evopedia source code ==== | ==== 2. download evopedia source code ==== | ||
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- | + | git clone git://github.com/crei/evopedia.git | |
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==== 3. adjust settings ==== | ==== 3. adjust settings ==== | ||
- | Set php's memory_limit to some higher value (128 MB) in | + | Set php's memory_limit to some higher value (128 MB) in /etc/php5/cli/php.ini (or similar) |
Create empty mysql database and grant all rights to some user - | Create empty mysql database and grant all rights to some user - | ||
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mysql> grant all privileges on wikidb.* to thomas@localhost identified by 'x1lx'; | mysql> grant all privileges on wikidb.* to thomas@localhost identified by 'x1lx'; | ||
- | Edit paths and database settings in | + | Edit paths and database settings in dumpscripts/createdump.sh |
(especially: dbuser, password, REPODIR, DUMPDIR) - make sure DUMPDIR points to area with plenty of space | (especially: dbuser, password, REPODIR, DUMPDIR) - make sure DUMPDIR points to area with plenty of space | ||
Change the dump language ("de" in "for" statement at bottom of dumpscripts/createdump.sh) | Change the dump language ("de" in "for" statement at bottom of dumpscripts/createdump.sh) | ||
- | Make | + | Make ~/evopedia/evopedia/evopedia/*.py files executable (chmod a+x ...). |
==== 4. start the dump process ==== | ==== 4. start the dump process ==== | ||
- | call | + | call createdump.sh |
(Don't be too optimistic though. After part of the day the database is filled with several gigabytes of downloaded wikipedia content, but something is broken and the final dump gives no results.) | (Don't be too optimistic though. After part of the day the database is filled with several gigabytes of downloaded wikipedia content, but something is broken and the final dump gives no results.) | ||
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