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offline p2p wikipedia electron app #14

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maxogden opened this Issue Jun 25, 2016 · 1 comment

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maxogden commented Jun 25, 2016

Who are the users?

people who wanna see a cool dat use case but arent super technical, just want something they can download and use. also users are any people who want to use wikipedia offline

How would the user interact with it?

open electron app, it looks like wikipedia.org, but everything works offline

Why is the project important to the ecosystem?

wikipedia is a large dataset, ~60gb, and this shows we can make a desktop app for offline browsing a large dataset

What defines the minimum requirements to sufficiently release (version 1)

What are some stretch goals or interesting features for further releases (version 2, 3)

  • embed peerwiki in electron app
  • basic article search
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if we convert https://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia/wikipedia_en_all_2016-05.zim to a dat, and seed that dat on a server, then have the clients download the article metadata on startup and then make requests for article content when they browse to a page, then clients can be sparse seeds whereas our server will always be a full seed. similar use case to sciencefair

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maxogden commented Jun 25, 2016

if we convert https://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia/wikipedia_en_all_2016-05.zim to a dat, and seed that dat on a server, then have the clients download the article metadata on startup and then make requests for article content when they browse to a page, then clients can be sparse seeds whereas our server will always be a full seed. similar use case to sciencefair

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