[TUT] Install Wiki2Touch on Firmware 2.x

Wikipedia is available Offline you can download and index the newset dump with wiki2touch transfer tool.
And you can install a wikiserver on your ipod which loads the dump in mobile safari.

Update: Leave out step 1-5 and install wikisrvd from Cydia instead

( Tut: (The TUT is in big parts from a little German Web Blog, I´ve transalted their post and change some things)

1. Install Bossprefs


2. Connect to your iPod with SSH; USb whatever and upload this file to /var/mobile/

3. Get Putty. (google)

4. In Putty log in as mobile. The password is alpine

5. Put in this commands

ls *.deb

su (password alpine, too)

dpkg -i wikisrvd-bossprefs-r137-20080814-1.deb

exit )

5. Now should Wiki2Touch work already.
But before using have you to downlaod a dump (the articles in one file)

6. Open the TransferTool and download the Dump in your language.

7. Chose the downloaded file in step 2 and start indexer.

8. Upload the file via the TransferTool to the iPod in Step3

9. If the upload is ready reboot your device

10. Open Safari and go to http://127.0.0.1:8080/index.html

11. Now you should see s.th. like this:


12. If not check if you have Wiki2Touch turned on in BossPrefs.


Wik2Touch is not my work. All Credits go to Tom Haukap. and to ipod.backshot.eu for their tutorial (german) and their serverspace.

PS. You cannot steal public blog posts.

yes but since youre going into safari anyway wouldnt it be easier to navigate yourself to wikipedia.org??

it´s an offline wikipedia

can you make a dump for israeli wikipedia?

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found it, thx.
lol only 200 mega.

I do absolutely not know what´s the language code for israel and I do not care about it (No i´m not a nazi)

but I think you know. You can download it with wiki2Touch transfer tool

thx ! great job.

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"file could not be copied to device"
"wrong premission on device"

does the old dump work?

Thx so much!

Thanks, this will be so helpfull.

is there a way to get two languages?
thx for the tutorial