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Old February 11th, 2006, 10:20 PM
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Wikipedia on Rockbox?
A friend of mine was showing me about ipodlinux and this project caught my eye:http://ipodlinux.org/Wikipedia. It's a project to make all of wikipedia available on ipodlinux, which I think is pretty darn cool. I couldn't find any reference to the idea on rockbox.org or misticriver and was wondering if there were any plans for similar thing on rockbox? Could it operate on a similar basis as the dictionary plugin that's underway?
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Old February 11th, 2006, 10:28 PM
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I also like the idea!!!!

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Old February 11th, 2006, 10:33 PM
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how much space do you think that would take up?
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Old February 11th, 2006, 10:42 PM
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That would be absolutely amazing!! However, it would most likely take up a shit load of space. Also, the scrolling would be quite a pain in the ass.

I think this would be the coolest feature of rockbox if this were possible!
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Old February 11th, 2006, 10:55 PM
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Interesting. The space thing would really be an issue though....
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Old February 11th, 2006, 10:56 PM
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Allegedly the text of the english wikipedia is 1.3GB currently.

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum...467276&p=2#r23
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Old February 11th, 2006, 11:08 PM
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nothing
1.3 is nothing... .
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Old February 11th, 2006, 11:22 PM
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1.3 gb is quite a lot considering i dont have that much free space right now in my h340, but it would certainly be worth it to make some space.

searching and scrolling might be a pain...
and i'm not sure how links between different articles would work.
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Old February 11th, 2006, 11:40 PM
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1.3 gigs compressed? If not, 1.3 gigs of text can be highly compressed.
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Old February 12th, 2006, 01:45 AM
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just wondering, is that the size of it if it was as a .txt file
coz i know those are only really small and this would be sweet
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Old February 12th, 2006, 03:16 AM
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It's 1.3GB of text maybe, but there is at least 10-15 times that much if you include images and other media
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Old February 12th, 2006, 04:20 AM
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downloading 1.3gig file will be painful
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Old February 12th, 2006, 04:20 AM
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That would be absolutely awsome. Imagine the pub quiz. I would LOVE to have an entire reference encyclopedia right at my fingertips, wherever I am!

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Old February 12th, 2006, 06:34 AM
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downloading 1.3gig file will be painful
Perhaps more painful would be the hosting of such a file for the mass of people that would want to download it! It would require a fast server with plenty of bandwidth.
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Old February 12th, 2006, 06:42 AM
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we could use a torrent
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Old February 12th, 2006, 06:51 AM
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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.


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Old February 12th, 2006, 07:39 AM
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Perhaps more painful would be the hosting of such a file for the mass of people that would want to download it! It would require a fast server with plenty of bandwidth.
We could consider using P2P. Lot of people has to be online tho or it will take days to download all
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Old February 12th, 2006, 10:41 AM
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this would be tight...if it would work correctly.....even a working dictionary and thesaurus would be nice....
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Old February 12th, 2006, 11:01 AM
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It would be nice..

But downloading, sure will be painful (agree with RTYUI333).

Personally, Id rather have dictionary though.
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Old February 12th, 2006, 11:19 AM
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It's 1.3GB of text maybe
yeah, c'mon, what do you got, the wikipedia of the universe, including the knowledge humanity dont know yet???
i got war and peace in a txt file and its 3 mb moreless!!

use torrent?? whats that! thats illegal! i never heard about it
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Old February 12th, 2006, 11:39 AM
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using torrent is perfectly nice and legal for such file transfers since wikipedia is open source, and so is rockbox, so as long as documentation is included with the wikipedia file, we're all good.

now scrolling and links have to be worked out, because sure as hell i know i won't be scrolling for 10 minutes to get to what i need.
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Old February 12th, 2006, 11:49 AM
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using torrent is perfectly nice and legal for such file transfers since wikipedia is open source, and so is rockbox, so as long as documentation is included with the wikipedia file, we're all good.
i know man, i was jokin. now what about the 1.3 gb .txt file?
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Old February 12th, 2006, 02:31 PM
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I love the idea.
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Old February 12th, 2006, 02:57 PM
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I love the idea, you could easily use FileFront.com to upload it...where everyone can download it within a few hours, and people wouldn't need to use any torrent program or anything of that sort.
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Old February 12th, 2006, 03:32 PM
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If you forget about the images and such, this is very doable. However, the search system would have to be sophisticated. Separate it into alphabetical categories, then the search utility uses the first letter to open the corresponding directory, and search for the word as an entry heading. I don't think we'd be able to have the X% Ma