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Does this app grab the files from Wikipedia directly? It doesn't seem very nice to create an app that pulls down gigabytes of data from a web service you do not
by naner 15y ago
Does this app grab the files from Wikipedia directly? It doesn't seem very nice to create an app that pulls down gigabytes of data from a web service you do not own nor have permission from.
EDIT: It appears my concern was unwarranted.
- antimatter15 15y agoIt doesn't
- naner 15y agoVery good then, nice little app.
- blantonl 15y agocan someone explain the reason why this concern is unwarranted?
- teraflop 15y agoThe files are hosted by Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/offline-wiki/downloads/list http://code.google.com/p/offline-wiki/downloads/list
- DanBC 15y agoWikipedia make dumps of their data available for exactly this type of use. Those dumps are taken and stored in other places. There's some weird GPL stuff that people need to be wary of, I guess.
- mmahemoff 15y agoWebRTC means peer-to-peer is probably coming to Chrome and Firefox soon, which will allow an app like this to transfer Wikipedia in all its 7.3GB (compressed) glory without harm to anyone's servers. http://www.webrtc.org/faq#TOC-What-other-components-are-included- http://www.webrtc.org/faq#TOC-What-other-components-are-incl...
- seanp2k2 15y agoI'd be worried about security and data authenticity with tech like that.
- antimatter15 15y agoYou could just compute data checksums of the stuff you get from peers, a la BitTorrent.