M. Galanis today asked me about offline readers that don't require an http server, but can just be run with a locally executable viewer and no daemons. This is a sensible question, since so many offline viewers (including ksanawiki) /do/ expect you to at least run a local script to play the 'server' before browsing. [NTS: we should get at least one ksanaforge developer to join this list.]<br>
<br>Mel points me to Stian Haklev's almost-completed reader that leaves the original data in bzip format and takes advantage of its internal indexing: <a href="http://reganmian.net/blog/2008/04/11/screencast-of-wikipedia-offline-zip-doc/">http://reganmian.net/blog/2008/04/11/screencast-of-wikipedia-offline-zip-doc/</a><br>
If any of you are into python or ruby hacking and want to lend a hand, I'm sure it would be appreciated.<br>I'm copying Stian for completeness, because what's the good of an all-connecting Interweb if you don't use it?<br>
[Stian: welcome; if you want to get wikireader-related spam, I can add you to this offline-reader mailing list...]<br><br>Yanni, does this do what you had in mind?<br><br>Cheers,<br>SJ