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Originally Posted by connell
I tried to import Wikipedia into a local copy of MediaWiki (so that I can parse it more easily into a viewable form) using MySQL 4...
Over the last few days I have already been converting the wiktionary into the format used by my wiki reader. (...) It works well (looks good although there are a few glitches with the conversion). It takes a while to do the conversion (about 1-2 topics a second) but this can be greatly improved with better software.
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So you need 28-55 hours for the conversion of the wiktionary (with approx. 100.000 entries) ?!! This can be greatly improved by taking the already existing tools on the wikipedia site and do some postprocessing afterwards to suit your format. It took me only 10-15 minutes to do the conversion to the rockbox dictionary format (see my last post).
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Originally Posted by connell
With a dedicated wiki plugin, we can have rich formatting (bold, italics etc), in-line topic links, a proper wiki interface (wiki selection, searching optimized for searching millions of articles etc). Many of these have already been implemented in my plugin. The dictionary plugin can be left to do what it has been designed to do - act as a fast, efficient method of displaying a relatively small amount of controlled information.
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Formatting is nice, but personally my primary interest is the content, not the presentation... in-line topic links would be very useful though. I thought enhancing the dictionary plugin could be an alternative to your approach. The speed of it's search is hardly beatable.
cheers
-partisan