Wikipedia on Rockbox?

[Daavid]

It would be brilliant, a reference pedia at my finger tips at all time. Sweet.

Don't know how I could possible help as I have no programming skills, but I look great in a cheerleaders outfit. lol just kidding, perish the thought.

[HiredGoon]

Originally Posted by possumking

We should gather up some Rockipedia groupies

Somehow RockPedia feels more natural, but maybe I'm just anal.

Yep, I am.

Anyway, awesome idea, and like the poster above me, I can only cheer from the sidelines in excitement.

[TheCowBoX]

I have webspace, so I can host stuff. I'll setup a website this weekend.

It will be located at http://rhscc.kuliukas.com/

[Daavid]

Cool, so is someone with the skills required gonna step up and give this a shot?

[TheCowBoX]

I don't really know Visual Basic nor the RB plugin format (I know C and its variants, but not how to write plugins with them), so I couldn't help with those. I could write a PHP script to download it, but that's kinda arbitrary, since it needs to be now targeted for Windows users (there's a bash script on the iPod linux site for Linux users). I'll setup the webspace and such.

[larry_llama]

Originally Posted by ManchesterUnited4Lif e

I personally don't see the point.

1.3GB is of more use to me as space for my music collection, than a Wiki OTG.

I'm never that far from a PC in any case.


MU4L

Other people might see the point though... I think it's a great idea. Better to have the option and ability to choose than to have no choice at all!

[marco]

still u not answerin me: how can possibly a txt file take 1GB space???

i know torrent files are legal, i was just kiddin, man!

[musichound]

Originally Posted by marco

still u not answerin me: how can possibly a txt file take 1GB space???

i know torrent files are legal, i was just kiddin, man!

I can see this because Wikipedia is hugh. However, with that said, it may take a lifetime to search for one article.

[marco]

However, with that said, it may take a lifetime to search for one article.

tru. to me, we better concentrate on somethin more useful...but anyway NE1 has its own idea, as this post showed. so u wont attack me.

[ManchesterUnited4Life]

Originally Posted by larry_llama

Other people might see the point though...

Hence my use of the word 'personally'

Better to have the option and ability to choose than to have no choice at all!

Fair do's

I just think that at 1.3GB, the choice has been made before I can make it ...

IMO,

MU4L

[in-oblivian]

Thats a great idea! I think a search element would need to be implemented and defentally a way to update it easily without having to re-DL the entire X amount of gigs. Anyhow I would be willing to help seed the torrent if for this did end up happening, I'm sure we would end up having no problem anyways distrubuting it, if we did use torrents.

[TheCowBoX]

There seems to be alot of negative feedback right now. Point is, currently we need someone to help write the search plugin and someone help organize the file. I still think that if it's broken up into directories A-Z and each directory contains a file with Aa.txt, Ab.txt, Ac.txt, etc., then it will greatly help the search utility. Like arcade games, the letters would be selected with the up and down arrows (cycling through the alphabet) and moved to the next place with the left and right arrows. NAVI would initiate the search.
This is a very doable idea if someone with the proper knowledge is willing to put forth the effort. I'll try to learn and stumble my way through plugin writing, but we'll see what happens.

EDIT: I've taken the liberty of roughing out how a search for an entry on "Apples" would be conducted:
What's the first letter? A? Open the A directory.
What's the second letter? P? Open Ap.txt (or P.txt, maybe)
What's the word? Apples? Remove the S in case it is plural. Search APPLE in headings.
Display text.

[possumking]

yo quiero ~~~~~~~

[in-oblivian]

Why don't we just have an onscreen keyboard and type in what were searching for? This would narrow it down alot. It would be to hard and tedious to search for something such as "William Shakespeare" It would take quite along time to navigate where as you could just type in a shorter search term like "wil sha" and it would find all results with letters in those sequence.

[TheCowBoX]

Start small and work your way up. By the way, it's William Shakespeare. I mean, do you want to code the graphics and such for an on-screen keyboard? Also, it would never just pull it up like Ctrl+F on Firefox. There's far too much information for it to automatically cache the whole thing. Also, if you can't spell what you're looking for, you should learn how to. It's never bad to learn something new. Anyways, I thought of a way of separating the heading from the entry: put brackets on it. So, instead of searching for APPLE, it will search for [APPLE, leaving it open-ended for the rest of the title. Of course, put words like THE, A, AN, etc. at the end.

[possumking]

Alright, I basically am extremely confused on what I've been doing but I've made a wee bit of progress. I have an articles folder on my computer that has every wikipedia article in it. They don't appear to be text files, but when i open them up with notepad I can read everything. It's pretty sweet. The folder has somewhere around 300,000 files in it. If I were to convert the files to text and were able to cut out some commands at the top of each file, I would basically have all of wikipedia on my h340. However, the folder is so huge that I can't open it. I can only search for articles within it. I've been trying to follow the instructions on the link at the top of the page, but I'm to "coding-retarded" to understand what to do.

I recommend that someone other (and better) than me try to do what I'm doing.

[possumking]

So i've been goofing off with the wikipedia on ipod crap and I've managed to download about 312,000 files. I basically have no idea what I'm doing, but I'm wondering if there is a viewable text limit if I put them all in one folder. Would this crash my player?

[TheCowBoX]

Can't you increase the file limit in RB?

[in-oblivian]

Originally Posted by TheCowBoX

Start small and work your way up. By the way, it's William Shakespeare. I mean, do you want to code the graphics and such for an on-screen keyboard? Also, it would never just pull it up like Ctrl+F on Firefox. There's far too much information for it to automatically cache the whole thing. Also, if you can't spell what you're looking for, you should learn how to. It's never bad to learn something new. Anyways, I thought of a way of separating the heading from the entry: put brackets on it. So, instead of searching for APPLE, it will search for [APPLE, leaving it open-ended for the rest of the title. Of course, put words like THE, A, AN, etc. at the end.

You could just take the on screen keyboard from the RockWord plugin no? I never thought a search function would be so complex, guess I was wrong. Anyhow looking good.

[Dr. Kenneth Noisewater]

i have no idea how hard it would be to implement, but the quickest most effective search system would be the one reduces the list of results as you type

[timothyallan]

why not try it? thats what the reset buttons for

[NPswimdude500]

Under General Settings-->System-->Limits-->Max files in dir browser, you'll see that you can only have 10,000 files in a directory. Thus, you'd need 32 folders for these files...not sure if that screws anything up....

[caramelsoul]

I heard from an unreliable source if you put 312001 files on it implodes...