{"id":1056,"date":"2009-07-26T16:29:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T20:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2009-07-30T04:28:02","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T08:28:02","slug":"offline-reading-and-editing-of-the-worlds-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2009\/07\/26\/offline-reading-and-editing-of-the-worlds-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Offline reading and editing of the world&#8217;s knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Offline wikireaders<\/strong> have been around for over a decade in various forms, but still it seems few of them are really excellent.\u00a0  (If you&#8217;re interested in such things, I have a <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.laptop.org\/listinfo\/wikireader\">mailing list<\/a> for you&#8230;) At OLPC I&#8217;ve worked on various ways of sharing content with groups of students who are offline, and last year Chris Ball and Wade Brainerd built a <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.laptop.org\/go\/WikiBrowse\">WikiBrowse<\/a> application, based on Patrick Collison&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.oreilly.com\/oscon2009\/public\/schedule\/detail\/8873\">iPhone Wikipedia<\/a> app, that has been downloaded by <strong>400,000 children<\/strong> and teachers in English and Spanish.\u00a0 This was the first reader to store a compressed dump, expanding pages as they are read, and including a few images.\u00a0 But it still doesn&#8217;t allow you to easily compile your own version of WikiBrowse based on your preferred title list, and it doesn&#8217;t support full-text search or offline editing.<\/p>\n<p>Now <strong>Pascal Martin<\/strong> of Linterweb and Wikiwix fame has released a new product : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.okawix.com\">Okawix<\/a>, the engine behind a new DVD snapshot of wikipedia; it is now linked from <a href=\"http:\/\/download.wikimedia.org\/dvd.html\">download.wikimedia.org<\/a>.\u00a0 You can reads more about it on their <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wikiwix.com\/en\/\">Wikiwix blog<\/a>.\u00a0 This could be the foundation for a fully functional Wikipedia on a Stick project, with editing and commentary, as the <strong>WikiStick <\/strong>hackers from Taiwan envisioned a couple of years ago.\u00a0 See for yourself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Offline wikireaders have been around for over a decade in various forms, but still it seems few of them are really excellent.\u00a0 (If you&#8217;re interested in such things, I have a mailing list for you&#8230;) At OLPC I&#8217;ve worked on various ways of sharing content with groups of students who are offline, and last year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[211,209,709],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","category-popular-demand","category-wikipedia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-h2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}