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Offline Wikipedia - Shantanu Choudhary

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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.