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This is pretty cool actually. The one thing I always hated about wikipedias .zim files is that they're not really a standard I can use elsewhere. Although I'm h
by MeinBlutIstBlau 6y ago
This is pretty cool actually. The one thing I always hated about wikipedias .zim files is that they're not really a standard I can use elsewhere. Although I'm having trouble understanding the sorting structure with just one json file I'm looking at. I realize it's sorting by the ID, but is that just simply based off of when the ID in wikipedia was created?
However, I think the json file is extraordinarily nice to have because it's all of wikipedia in just a simple text format. If we could get wikipedia as an entire package with all the html, css, javascript but capable of being run locally, I think that would be an amazing game changer using wikipedia offline, especially on a pi! While kiwix "works" in some ways, it also has some major issues that makes using it such a pain. I'd like for wikipedia to be just a completely source of data and information that I could search and pull up just even a basic html file and read that article from looking it up just in my own directory.
Overall though this is a super cool project!
- m-p-3 6y agoIt's not a hugely useful bit of information, but I found out a while ago that most Kobo eReaders are able to handle ZIM files. And some of them can have their "on-board" storage increased, which is actually a normally non-user-accessible SD card. I wouldn't do it on a water-resistant model to avoid breaking the seal.