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What Is It?

Evopedia is an offline Wikipedia viewer for Linux and especially for the Openmoko Freerunner and the Maemo platform.
An arbitrary browser can be used to search for titles and view the articles. The geographical data in the articles is used to display a map of the articles. This map automagically uses your saved tiles from tangoGPS if you are offline and Openstreetmap tiles if you are online. The images on Wikipedia are not contained in the dump but if you are connected to the internet, they are nevertheless shown. The project is based on the (abandoned) Mokopedia project.

Evopedia 0.3

This version is still being tested. When it's ready, it will use a completely new storage engine that does not need a kernel module or superuser rights to start and nevertheless features faster search and smaller dumps. The source code is available at github. Information (and data dumps) can be found on the Maemo Wiki.

Evopedia 0.2

The dumps are unfortunately offline at the moment. If you need one, I can put them online for a short time, just contact me.

New features: more recent dump, articles on map, random articles, faster search

Download

Evopedia can be used with any Wikipedia language, you need to download the main software and additionally some Wikipedia dump in the language you prefer. Precompiled dumps for some languages can be found on this website. Except for the English Wikipedia, they should all easily fit on a SDHC. At the moment, there is unfortunately no dump of the English Wikipedia for Evopedia 0.2. Squashfs v4.0 is included in the Linux kernel from version 2.6.29 on, the dump for that version is recommended. Evopedia 0.2 dumps all use Suashfs v4.0.

Install the .ipk file, download one dump and put it in /media/card/wikipedia.squashfs. If you put it somewhere else, just edit /etc/evopedia.conf appropriately.

Source Code

Evopedia uses github for development, the source code can be obtained from there.

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Evopedia 0.1

The dumps are unfortunately offline at the moment. If you need one, I can put them online for a short time, just contact me.

Evopedia 0.1 is outdated but still usable and also provides a dump of the English Wikipedia.

Big thanks to Frédéric Leroy for building most of these images!

License

Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Christian Reitwießner
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

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