Hitchwiki:While offline

It's great to be able to access Hitchwiki information when you're not connected to the internet. There are several options for that, all based on Hitchwiki's daily database dumps

Offline-readers

Aard Dictionary

Aarddict is a convenient tool to access tons of dictionaries and other sources while offline. It's free software available under the GNU General Public License, and there are versions for Ubuntu, Mac OS X, Windows, Android.

Aarddict uses Aard files (.aar). There is a [tutorial (for Ubuntu) how to convert the database-dumps into an .aar file. You have to edit the file "fetchsiteinfo.py": "...//%s/w/api.php..." -> "...//%s/api.php..."

Daily updated Hitchwiki .aar files in all languages can be found here: http://www-stud.hs-fulda.org/~wiki

If you're interested: The automated script for the convertion and aditional info (in German)

httrack

"HTTrack is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility."

DICT

Guaka converted the Hitchwiki database dump into the dict format. If your OS is Debianic you can try to apt-get install dictd and copy this file into /usr/share/dictd

You can download it at: http://groups.google.com/group/hitchwiki/web/dict-hitchwiki.tar.bz2 (old data, from 2008 or so)

Guaka was using this on his Nokia 770, in order to access Hitchwiki info while on the road!

other

• Hitchzine

The print zine that Zac was working on in 2008.