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Re: New Project Proposal: The ArabicOpenCD
- To: Development Discussions <developer at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Re: New Project Proposal: The ArabicOpenCD
- From: khaledhosny at eglug dot org
- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:31:26 +0200
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On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:22:13PM +0200, wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 01:08:17PM +0100, Djihed Afifi wrote:
> > ** What is it?
> >
> > The ArabicOpenCD is a collection of open source software, some of it
> > already localised in Arabic, some is not, in a CD suitable for
> > distribution for Microsoft Windows operating systems.
> >
> What about Free knowledge too and not Free software only, I mean manly
> Arabic wikipedia [1].
> The idea is too distribute a local mirror of wikipedia on the CD as
> static HTML files (or any suitable form).
>
> There is periodic XML dumps of wikipedia database, you can access those
> for Arabic wikipedia here [2]. Also this page describes how to do such
> mirroring [3]. There is also some related links bellow [4].
>
> --
> [1] http://ar.wikipedia.org
> [2] http://download.wikimedia.org/arwiki
> [3] http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/نقاش المستخدم:Riddler
> [4] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_on_CD/DVD
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia-CD/Download
I forget this link too :), http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers
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Khaled Hosny
Egyptian GNU/Linux user
Member of Arabeyes translation team [www.arabeyes.org]
My Blog: [khalid_hosny.manalaa.net]