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It’s beautiful! Could you make an offline version as an app? Check out Wiki2Touch for offline Wikipedia ideas, or pingtype (shameless plug) - just work out an

• optimalplusone 2y ago
  That's a good idea! An offline would be as easy as just making a parallel mediawiki API that serves from a local server. I will check out implementations. Server fees aren't an issue with this deployment as it's just a small static app, though if this were to be big it would be a load on the mediawiki API, so if there's more interest than this as a hobbyist side project I should serve some of my own and cache (as I'm loading a lot of images in parallel) I looked up your pingtype project, it looks like it's for translating English <=> Chinese. Would that be for translating articles? For that I imagine I should add the feature for viewing Wikipedia in different languages.
  • peterburkimsher 2y ago
    Yes, pingtype was original English <=> Chinese (traditional, simplified, Hakka, and Taiwanese). The iOS app has a Wikipedia server built-in, for the articles. The github page https://pingtype.github.io https://pingtype.github.io has only some smaller data cached, accessible through the top header row. Or you can copy-paste any text in. Pingtype now supports over 28 languages, through direct links e.g. https://pingtype.github.io/greek.html https://pingtype.github.io/greek.html Github are very generous with their free hosting!