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Offline Wikipedia

Shantanu Choudhary Offline Wikipedia
Institute/Affiliation Sarai
Abstract This talk will be about:Wikipedia, the best encyclopedia made by the people for the people.
  • Introducing http://code.google.com/p/offline­wikipedia/ and other attempts.
  • How to use xml dumps provided by wikipedia, to create effective offline­ wikipedia.
  • Demonstrating how one can install and use it effectively.
  • Discussion on how to make it better, in parsing, storing, rendering and retrieving information.
About the Speaker Shantanu Choudhary, working at Sarai (www.sarai.net) on various projects related to FLOSSINCLUDE (http://www.flossinclude.org/) and Indlinux (http://www.indlinux.org/). I have finished my graduation from NIT Jaipur (www.mnit.ac.in). For final year project i was part of http://glendix.org/ project which aimed at porting plan9 user space to Linux kernel.

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