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muzzle
March 16th, 2009, 09:41
Hi,

I think this has already been proposed before, the reason I'm writing this is that I realized that half of the work to have wikipedia on a psp has already been done:
there are several version of Wikipedia already available in the Encyclopodia Ebook format (a spec designed to port wikipedia on small, embedded systems). A reader that support the format is all that's missing to have wikipedia on every psp.

If you are interested the specification for the format are here:
http://encyclopodia.sourceforge.net/ebookformat.html

some working code (for ipod) is here:
http://encyclopodia.sourceforge.net/en/index.html

and some wikipedia editions are here:
http://encyclopodia.sourceforge.net/en/library.html

I really hope you like this idea, it would basically turn your psp in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy).

If any hb developer is ooking for a good idea to work on... well this is my humble proposal :)

muzzle
March 17th, 2009, 10:34
Hi, apparently something similar already exist for Nintendo ds (http://code.google.com/p/dswiki/) and for ipod touch (http://code.google.com/p/wiki2touch/).
What the hell, only the psp is missing :(

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