Hello Shantanu
You should really look at the work I did about offline wikipedia.
The presentation:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2009-January/040812.html
Some samples:
http://www.wiki-web.es/mediawiki-offline-reader/
*Same kind of compression, based on bzip2 blocks, but with th
Samuel Klein wrote:
> Compression allowing random access is definitely the way to go for
> large selections.
>
> Ángel, that's an interesting reader you wrote. I cc: a list for
> offline wikireaders (most designed around mediawiki).
Subscribed.
> A similar idea
> i
Anthony wrote:
> I've looked at the numbers and thought about this in detail and I don't
> think so. What definitely *would* be much more user friendly is to use a
> compression scheme which allows random access, so that end users don't have
> to decompress everything all at once in the first plac
