Intuition - Home of Wiki2Touch

… now points to the Google-Code page for Wiki2Touch.

Anyway, I was able to download the images for the German Wikipedia. Thumbs with the size of 130px 120px (x-axis). Usually Wikipedia is using 180px. I’ve decided to use 130px 120px because most of the images are much smaller. I’ve got 333275 out of 343896 images. The remaining was either not found or to large. I’ve not downloaded pictures larger than 128 kBytes.

I’ve stored the images in two different locations: One with the source of WikiCommons, the other once with the source of the German Wikipedia. So maybe the ones from Common can be reused. I will put them to two different files. Speed on the device is fine and doesn’t matter. So there is no problem.

Actually I don’t know how large these two files are gonna be. And maybe I will drop some larger ones. I will keep you informed.

I try to get everything I have out this weekend. This will include changes to the application (support for a commons image file), the Chinese JavaScript fix, a language aware indexer (because of language depended image prefixes), configurable image prefix for other languages than English and German and of course the source for the image downloader.

Nicolas was so kind and created a forum for discussions. Currently it’s empty but I think it much better to ask and answer inside a forum than in this blog.

So head over a have a look at http://wiki2touch.ipodhelp.de.

Although the domain is “.de” please use English language. As you see, I’m really not “da man” when it comes to write in English. So don’t be shy and have respect to international users. Thanks!

Does anyone knows a good, free bulletin board which we can use as a “home” for discussion about the Wiki2Touch app? My “web space” didn’t allows installing application so we can use it. And the provider didn’t offers such a software.

It would be nice because we could easily maintain faqs or so and the discussions and comments may be handle and/or displayed a lot better.

Any suggestions?

First of all: I don’t have a problem releasing the source of the Wiki-Server application.

But that has to be done the right way: Opening a project on Google-Code or SourceForge. Why? To get a rcs repository so that more people can work together on the application.

Until today I only had one contact of a guy who would like to lend a hand and help in developing. After I’ve send him the codes I’ve never heard again from him. Hmm.

So unless there is no interest in participating in the project I will save the time setting up the project and releasing the sources.

While writing an E-Mail to Yann I got the idea how to drop the need for Xpaian. Yann did a PHP Wikipedia Offline reader by himself but stopped the project after he found out that there is not bzip2 support in PHP on the iPod Touch/iPhone.

Searching using the new index will be limited to the complete case insensitive title. That’s enough for retrieving the templates. Because of a lot of redirects used by Wikipedia itself it didn’t hurt so much as it sounds.

Some more benefits:

• The index will be a lot smaller (app. 210 MB instead of 1.7 GB (english version))
• The 1.4 MB code file of the Xpaian library on the device is no longer needed
• The 0.8 MB additional libstc++ on the device is also not needed anymore
• As there is no need for any additional library anymore everything can be packet into one nice iKi.app file (including a nice icon); distribution using the installer is possible and very easy
• Creating the index is not needing Xapian anymore, can be done in one independent code file which is easy to compile or distribute in binary form; creating a nice GUI app is very simple.

So stay tuned, I’ve just started to implement it.