Wikipedia Dump Reader 0.2.9

[benjamin thyreau]

Name: Wikipedia Dump Reader
Version: 0.2.9
Type: KDE Education
Depend: PyKDE/PyQt
License: GPL
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=65244

Description:
 This simple programs display the text-only
wikipedia compressed dumps, currently available at
http://download.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html,
generally named something like
pages-articles.xml.bz2.

It's fairly useable now although lots of 
rendering issues occurs

Features includes a Qt viewer with basic text
markup, following links, ability to read directly
on the .bz2 compressed file (altough some index
creations step is needed on first run), tab-like
list of articles with load-in-the-background by
default, a simple but useful keyword search, very
light source-code, optional latex rendering.

The code requires PyQt4

Older versions has been tested on Fedora Core 4
and Kubuntu with PyQt4.1 (Python 2.4, Qt 4.2), and
Ubuntu Gutsy.

See included README

Note that the development tree is now hosted on
launchpad. See
https://launchpad.net/wikipediadumpreader/

Any comment is welcome.

Changelog:
 Updated to 0.2.9:
- make it able to load Wiktionary non-uppercased
words
- Ability to load a 64-bits module - Thanks to
Michael Heide  
- added a small UI layout - Thanks to GreenReaper
- Better corrupted files handling

Updated to 0.2.8:
- Sorry : no program changes, but a much more
friendly opening dialog
Built a rough Ubuntu package, to ease installation
for unexperienced users running Ubuntu Gutsy or
Hardy


Updated to 0.2.7:
- minor rendering fixes
- a few more macros

Updated to 0.2.6:
- better wikisyntax parsing
- minor bugfixes

Updated to 0.2.5:
- Bugfixes and improvement in rendering. 
- Moved the development tree to lp
- optional fontsize

Updated to 0.2.4:
- Optional Latex/texvc call to render math. thanks
to Mathieu Beliveau 

Updated to 0.2.3:
- Fixed an obvious overflow bug in the index
creation code.
Rebuilding the index is necessary, sorry. To force
it, delete the two *idx files before running the
program, and be patient (English dumps index
creation takes several dozen minutes)
- basic table and footnotes support

Updated to 0.2.1 : fix a bug when reading articles
on blocks boundaries
Updated to 0.2.2 : improved wiki rendering for
lists and definitions