Offline Wiki Reader

[Jamima]

Since the Zune HD doesnt have a very good web browser and all, (its based off ie6) I think Having a Wiki reader (and your favorite wikis)on the go would be awesome. You could have the cooking wiki, WoWiki, Wookiepedia, and so on all in your pocket.
From what I've seen, it doesn't seem to be too complicated a project to undertake.

Here are some links:

Wikipedia page on database dumping:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_database

Tutorial page on building a Wikireader:
http://users.softlab.ntua.gr/~ttsiod...iaOffline.html

[Draklor]

I'm sure this is entirely possible, but not offline. It would need online to load the Wiki pages, unless it was able to create a cache to load from similar to how Spotify loads playlists in offline mode for premium users.

[Anthony]

You'd have to selectively choose which parts you want to store offline(wikipedia is way too large), and you'd have to transfer them over FTP in liberate, because I'm pretty sure trying to deploy that much data would fail.

[Jamima]

Yeah the English wikipedia is 7gb COMPRESSED, and 31GB uncompressed, so uploading the entire thing is out of the question.
I was thinking more along the lines of specific wikis like The Vault, DOOM Wiki, or Wookiepedia.
The program (at its best) would function like Wikitaxi, with navigation buttons and such.
I'm not really well versed on web formats, or the intricacies of Wikipedia, but wouldn't an .XML reader do just fine for this?

[Beausiph]

I use to have something that did this on my old iPod video

I think this is a fantastic idea! It's definitely feasible.