Wikipedia off-line

Thanks Michael for remind me this topic. It contains some useful information.

Because we were just today discuss about some options how to improve offline content in Locus or offline content of LoMaps Points, I'm sure this topic will comes to our internal discussion again (soon).

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Hi Michael,

could you tell a little more about your solution on querying wikilocation from locus?

Let us check step by step:

- you know the search function in Locus I suppose

- tap the function button on the top right, the three stripes

- scrolling down you are offered Wikipedia, tap it

- the search button triggers the Wikilocation search, which currently needs internet access, and which should be local instead

- after some time you get a lost of Wikipedia entries

- tap one, scroll down and hit the url

- if you have Aard2 offline Wikipedia installed, you will see this besides browser based access

- enjoy

Cheers

Michael

PS: the mapping of geo coordinates to Wikipedia entries nearby is the only missing piece, and this needs Menion's action

Thanks very much!

This may be possible completely offline now: On my system, I have Aard2 with German Wikipedia and hyperlinks to German Wikipedia are offered to be opened either in Aard2 or a web browser. As of Locus 4.26 a LoPoint can contain a link See more on Wikipedia – clicking that link shall allow to open the Wikipedia article offline in Aard2. I cannot try/verify because the link is to English Wikipedia which is quite fat so I do not want to download + install just for that test.

I'm not sure it makes sense to offer a configuration/setting what Wikipedia language LoPoints shall display and link to. At the one hand, it's probably trivial + fast to implement and also helpful for people not fluent in English (they directly see the entries they understand without a need to manually navigating there for each single article), at the other hand, to really implement this idea, Offline LoPoints would need to be provided in multiple languages...

In LM4 you can select the language of the Wikipedia lookup. I just tested to confirm.

I have both, DE and EN Aards in my device and it works like a charm.

We are currently rewriting the system of offline map content (LoPoints) in Locus for both Android and iOS. In the new version there will be Wikipedia content included in form of short texts - first paragraph of the page. So even without large offline content downloaded (Aard2) there will be something short in 7 languages. The language selection logic is simple, as far as I remember it is "give the client the language they asked for, if it is not available then English, if English is not available then nothing". (For me, e.g. French is not much useful). The link to full article offline should work too. The (partially) bad news is: There will be not all of Wikipedia geo-referenced articles. One of the reason is described here . Another reason why there will be categorized selection of articles linked to points is... management of chaos. The better part is that offline content will be a "mirror" of online content. So everything that is done online will be automatically available offline too. And lot of needed work is rather configuration and not too hard location based matching, it is just a lot of work for someone(me). I attach an example of such an excerpt.

@Michael: How can one cnfigure the language for Wikipedia lookup to work offline with Aard? 🤷‍♂ I did search English LM settings for "wiki" and "lang" but did not find the setting. Also, witin one online LoPoint, I did long press "See more on Wikipedia" without success. Only place I found a language choice was Search > Wikipedia, but this only works with internet connection, i.e. fetching the first few sentences from the internet, and only the final link to the full article opens in Aard.

Just tried to test, but it seems they Bröker the while thing befreien having the new solution.

Different from before there is no link to "more" but only http links that point to the internet.

BAD!

Or do I miss a trick here, @Radim?