dswiki

Offline-Wikipedia reader for the Nintendo DS

DSwiki is an offline viewer for Wiki markup, for example for the Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wiktionaries, ...

DSwiki is NOT a web browser!

Why DSwiki?

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 NewDictS can display an uncompressed dump, but this dump is outdated, and the Wikipedia has grown dramatically since then, so compression was absolutely necessary.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.

Features

Get the complete(!) Wikipedia on a Nintendo DS. The English language edition fits on a 4GB storage device, the German edition is just 1.2GB.
Quite good handling of internal links. Alternative display text and appended letters are supported to create the same look as in the online version. Subpage links are supported.
Very good Unicode/UTF8-Support (as much - or as little - as the underlying font covers)
Fast and easy searchable index
Bookmarks

Usage

Just take the tutorial at the first start, or start it any time later from the menu.

Installation

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

necessary.
Create dumps of your favorite wiki or download already prepared ones.

Visit http://code.google.com/p/dswiki/wiki/Dumps for a list.
Copy all files with the extensions

ifo idx ao1 ao2 db? ? = one letter, typically "a" or "b", "z" is used in older versions

into /dswiki. This directory must exist in the root directory of your flash card.