{"id":841,"date":"2008-06-02T20:50:57","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T00:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/2008\/06\/02\/xo-wikireader-compressed-joy\/"},"modified":"2008-06-02T20:53:42","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T00:53:42","slug":"xo-wikireader-compressed-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2008\/06\/02\/xo-wikireader-compressed-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"XO Wikireader : compressed joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.printf.net\/\"><strong>Chris<\/strong> Ball<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sphericalcow.org\/index.php?p=16\">a <strong>Mad<\/strong> bio-savvy artisan<\/a>, and <strong>Wade<\/strong> Brainerd all spent part of the past two weeks getting a disk-conserving wikireader onto the XO that supports browsing and simple searching over a <strong>100-fold<\/strong> compressed set of articles.<br \/>\nThe result :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a 100M activity containing most of the <strong>Spanish Wikipedia<\/strong>, with illustrations, math fontification, and templates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> scripts that support generating a new version from the latest articles, from <strong>heuristics<\/strong> defining the most popular titles, with only a few hours of work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is also a short blacklist of pages and images that need improvement which will change over time.\u00a0 A whitelist of unpopular but crucial pages will surely build up, and the process will find a way to learn from the subject-specific wikireader efforts to produce smaller uncompressed <strong>collections<\/strong>.\u00a0  The same idea and scripts can provide a roughly Britannica-sized collection for every major language; or a multilingual cover of the 200 smallest languages; expect an English one soon for comparison.<br \/>\nWhile this reader (which has to unzip each page as it is requested) is slower than browsing html, it is still a pleasure to use.  The real lack, shared with other readers to date, is that comments and <strong>editing<\/strong> don&#8217;t yet work&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Ball, a Mad bio-savvy artisan, and Wade Brainerd all spent part of the past two weeks getting a disk-conserving wikireader onto the XO that supports browsing and simple searching over a 100-fold compressed set of articles. The result : a 100M activity containing most of the Spanish Wikipedia, with illustrations, math fontification, and templates [&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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[205,211,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glory-glory-glory","category-international","category-poetic-justice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-dz","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","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=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}