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DSwiki (v0.1alpha2)
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DSwiki is an offline viewer for Wiki markup, for example for the
Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wiktionaries, ...

DSwiki is NOT a web browser!

Why DSwiki?
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DSwiki is optimal for all people with a Nintendo DS that like to
have their information "portable", but cannot access the Internet
directly. So far, no Program was very good in displaying the
Wikipedia on the DS. NewDictS can display an uncompressed dump, but
this dump is outdated, and the Wikipedia has grown dramatically
since then, so compression was absolutely necessary. In addition,
most homebrew programs can't handle UTF-8.

DSwiki is based on
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-- NewDictS
Thanks to sesa for graphics-/unicode- and font-routines

-- Wiki2Touch
Thanks to Tom Haukap for the file format and index routines

-- libbzip2

-- Terminus fonts

-- GNU Unifont [DOWN]

Thanks to Roman Czyborra

Features
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-- Get the complete(!) Wikipedia on a Nintendo DS. The English language
edition fits on a 4GB storage device, the German edition is just 1.1GB.
-- Quite good handling of internal links. Alternative display text
and appended letters are supported to create the same look as
in the online version.
-- Very good Unicode/UTF8-Support (as much - or as little - as the
underlying font covers)
-- A cache to navigate quickly the history of visited pages

Planned Features
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-- Much better markup display
-- Bookmarks
-- Improved Search (speed, advanced input)
-- Navigation by document structure (jump to headlines or
jump from link to link as in text browsers)
-- "Find as you type" inside an article
-- Memory saving font handling, switching between fonts on the fly

Use
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At the moment DSwiki can't do more than display mostly unformatted
wiki markup of articles (but word and line breaks and a proportional
font make it easy readable).

DSwiki works as follows:

A random article will be loaded at the start.

Up/Down: Scroll one line backward/forward

Left/Right: Scroll one page backward/forward

Stylus: Follow a link on the bottom screen

L/R: Go one page back/forward in history

A: Go to another random article

X: Index-assisted search on/off

Articles names (no unicode yet) can be entered
on the keyboard.

Touching the red button clears the input field.

Touching the green button or pressing A will
load the article with the topmost title, shown
on the upper screen.

Installation
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1. Copy DSwiki.nds somewhere on your flash card, DLDI-patch it if
necessary.

2. Create dumps of your favorite wiki or download already prepared ones.
Visit for a list.

Linux users, who want to compile their own dumps, can use the
"createDSwikiDatabase" script. To compile the indexer in this process,
you need a C++-Compiler with the necessary libraries, and you need to
install the development files for "libbzip2".

3. Copy dewiki.ao1, dewiki.ao2, dewiki.dbz, dewiki.idx and dewiki.ifo
into the root directory of your flash card.

IMPORTANT: These names are fixed at the moment, so use them
anyway, even if you want to use a different language/wiki.

Bugs/Issues
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-- The programs often crashes while typing on the keyboard.