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Several Wikipedias are available in TomeRaider 3 format - a commercial ebook reader - for offline browsing on a handheld (Pocket PC, Palm OS or EPOC) or a Microsoft Windows PC.

Each database contains all unabridged articles for one wikipedia. However all meta information (user pages, upload info, discussions, etc) and multimedia (video and sound) have been discarded to save memory (which comes at a premium on handhelds). Images are optional in some cases, but add greatly to the file size. For handhelds you will need a large memory card. The newest text-only TomeRaider file for the English Wikipedia measures roughly 3.3 GB.

As of summer of 2007 new TomeRaider3 files have been built for several wikipedias.

Target platforms

Most TomeRaider files are platform independent. However the Wikipedia databases for TomeRaider3 come in varieties that make best use of the capabilities of a platform:

(P)PC - For Windows PC and Pocket PC handhelds. This version of TomeRaider3 fully supports HTML and CSS. It renders the articles almost similarly to the online Wikipedia.
Palm - TomeRaider3 for Palm has limited HTML support. As a result the articles are shown with basic formatting. Complex tables are a bit unorganised. On the Palm platform TomeRaider3 can only read files up to 2 Gb (even when the handheld uses FAT32 file system). Therefore editions larger than 2Gb need to be published as several volumes. Hyperlinks between these volumes are turned into external references and have to be resolved manually.

Wikipedia TR3 Files

Spanish version (up to January 2009) - [1]

TomeRaider 3

Since Oct 2004 a new version of TomeRaider is available with major improvements:

Image support
Category support
Even better text compression
Advanced search facilities

Searching with TomeRaider

After downloading the TomeRaider database, one can search the Wikipedia version offline. One can also search for parts of words.

To search the text that appears only in the page history, you must export the text to XML format first.

External links

Yadabyte publishes the commercial ebook reader TomeRaider.
Several ready-made Wikipedia database files can be downloaded.

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-Several [[Wikipedia]]s are available in [[TomeRaider]] format for offline browsing on a handheld ([[Pocket PC]], [[Palm OS]] or [[EPOC (computing)|EPOC]]) or a [[Microsoft Windows]] [[IBM PC compatible|PC]].
+Several [[Wikipedia]]s are available in [[TomeRaider]] 3 format - a commercial [[ebook]] reader - for offline browsing on a handheld ([[Pocket PC]], [[Palm OS]] or [[EPOC (computing)|EPOC]]) or a [[Microsoft Windows]] [[IBM PC compatible|PC]].
-All articles are conserved in the database. However all meta information (user pages, upload info, discussions, etc) has been discarded to save memory (which comes at a premium on handhelds). Also images and sounds are not included. For [[TeX]] formulas the TeX code is shown instead of the formula itself. (Dec 2003: TeX formulas will now be rendered to HTML on Pocket PC version).
+Each database contains all unabridged articles for one wikipedia. However all meta information (user pages, upload info, discussions, etc) and multimedia (video and sound) have been discarded to save memory (which comes at a premium on handhelds). Images are optional in some cases, but add greatly to the file size. For handhelds you will need a large [[memory card]]. The newest text-only TomeRaider file for the English Wikipedia measures roughly 3.3 GB.
+As of summer of 2007 new TomeRaider3 files have been built for several wikipedias.
-For handhelds you will need a huge [[memory card]]. The TomeRaider file for the English Wikipedia measures roughly 537 [[MB]] (but contains > 1080 MB text).
+===Target platforms===
-Right now six databases for TomeRaider 2 are available for download:
+Most TomeRaider files are platform independent. However the Wikipedia databases for TomeRaider3 come in varieties that make best use of the capabilities of a platform:
-*English Wikipedia (537 MB, version of December 30, 2004)
+*'''(P)PC''' - For Windows PC and Pocket PC handhelds. This version of TomeRaider3 fully supports [[HTML]] and [[CSS]]. It renders the articles almost similarly to the online Wikipedia.
-*German Wikipedia (236 MB, version of December 30, 2004), for german versions you should also check the german page!
+*'''Palm''' - TomeRaider3 for Palm has limited HTML support. As a result the articles are shown with basic formatting. Complex tables are a bit unorganised. On the Palm platform TomeRaider3 can only read files up to 2 Gb (even when the handheld uses FAT32 file system). Therefore editions larger than 2Gb need to be published as several volumes. Hyperlinks between these volumes are turned into external references and have to be resolved manually.
-*French Wikipedia (81 MB, version of December 30, 2004)
-*Polish Wikipedia (53 MB, version of December 30, 2004)
-*Dutch Wikipedia (44 MB, version of December 30, 2004)
-*Esperanto Wikipedia (12 MB, version of December 30, 2004)
+==Wikipedia TR3 Files==
-Since January 28, 2005, TomeRaider 3 versions are now also available for download.
+*Spanish version (up to January 2009) - [http://wikipedia.pdaexpertos.com/]
-To get the multilanguage databases for handhelds and PC go to [[http://download.wikimedia.org/tomeraider/current_tr3/ this site]]. You can also download the Spanish Wikipedia optimized for TR3 and Palm OS from [[http://wikipedia.pdaexpertos.com this site]].
-It is not difficult to generate a more up to date version yourself from a database dump file, see [http://members.chello.nl/epzachte/Wikipedia/ProcedureTR2.html instructions]
-=== Examples ===
-These are example [[screenshot]]s of the Wikipedia TomeRaider database on a Pocket PC.
-<table border="1" cellspacing ="1" cellpadding = "1">
-<tr>
-<td>[[image:WikipediaTomeRaider1.png]]</td>
-<td>[[image:WikipediaTomeRaider3.png]]</td>
-<td>[[image:WikipediaTomeRaider6.png]]</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-===Target Platforms===
-The TomeRaider files are platform specific:
-*'''(P)PC''' - For Windows PC and Pocket PC handhelds. This version of TomeRaider fully supports [[HTML]]. It renders the articles almost similar to the online Wikipedia. December 2003, TeX and unicode font support were added for this platform.
-*'''Palm''' - TomeRaider 2 for Palm does not support HTML. As a result the articles are shown with very basic formatting. Complex tables are a bit messy. The files still have to be converted into pdb format (version 2.8). The TomeRaider 2 implementation puts a restriction on the file size. Therefore the largest wikipedias had to be split into several chunks (English: 20!). Hyperlinks between these volumes are turned into external references and have to be resolved manually. See also TomeRaider 3 below.
-*'''EPOC''' - The formatting is similar to the Palm version. No size constraints here, so even the huge English Wikipedia is available here as one volume.
 ===TomeRaider 3===
-Since Oct 2004 a new version of Tomeraider is available with major improvements:
+Since Oct 2004 a new version of TomeRaider is available with major improvements:
 *Image support
 *Category support
 *Even better text compression
 *Advanced search facilities
-*Palm platform: better html support, still not as good as on Windows or Pocket PC (no html table markup)
-*Palm platform: file size restrictions are gone, hence no 20 chunks for the English Wikipedia, but one big file, like on other platforms
+==Searching with TomeRaider==
-Notice that the freeware version is a crippled one disallowing the reading of many articles.
+After downloading the TomeRaider database, one can search the Wikipedia version offline. One can also search for parts of words.
+To search the text that appears only in the page history, you must [[special:export|export]] the text to [[XML]] format first.
+==See also==
+* http://fbo.no-ip.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Public/MobiPedia Wikipedia (several languages) in Mobipocket-Format
+*The XML dump files on which the TomeRaider files are based are also available. See [[Wikipedia:Database download|Database download]].
+*[[Wikipedia:TomeRaider database - download instructions]]
+*[[meta:TomeRaider_3_conversion_script]]
-===Links===
+==External links==
+*Yadabyte publishes the commercial ebook reader [http://www.tomeraider.com TomeRaider].
-For more screenshots (also for Palm, EPOC and Windows), the [[Perl]] conversion script and related info visit the [http://members.chello.nl/epzachte/Wikipedia/ site of the author] (Erik Zachte)
+*Several ready-made Wikipedia database files can be [http://www.infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/DownloadTR3.html downloaded].
-See also [[Wikipedia:TomeRaider database - download instructions|Download instructions]]. The SQL dump files on which the TomeRaider files are based are also available, see [[Wikipedia:Database download|Database download]].
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-[[fr:Wikipédia:TomeRaider base de données]]
-[[nl:Wikipedia:TomeRaider database]]