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WikiSherpa is a free Wikitravel-gateway app for Android and iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch devices, created by Jon Evans. It can be used to download an arbitrary number of Wikitravel pages for offline reading, to plot Wikitravel listings on a map, to download and view OpenStreetMap maps while offline (with Wikitravel listings shown), and to edit Wikitravel while offline.
MediaWiki software, made in PHP. Wikitravel is a web -based collaborative travel guide based on the wiki format and owned by Internet Brands. It was most active from 2003 through 2012, when most of its editing community left and brought their contributions to the nonprofit Wikivoyage guide. [2]
- July 2003; 20 years ago
- Internet Brands
- Evan Prodromou, Michele Ann Jenkins
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Wikitravel has two main target media: online use over the World Wide Web, and offline use in hardcopy (paper) form. It's possible, however, to have electronic files that you can read on a computer or a PDA even when you aren't connected to the Internet. This could be very useful for some travellers. Being able to navigate through a number of articl...
Database dumpcontaining content from all pages. 1. See also http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps Since there are no database dumps available yet you might try to use httrackto download all pages. An unofficial dump (Mar 2010, 39MB)in raw XML format, as output by MediaWiki, can be used with several of the products listed below. There is also a ...
To define one or more target formatsfor off-line readingTo define the desired user interfacefor obtaining and using Wikitravel articlesThere are a few main off-line readers for PDAs. Most define their own file format, although some can read plain text files and HTML files. 1. Palm DocNo particular reader. These are native plain-text files for Palm devices -- no images or hyperlinks. 2. AvantGo http://www.avantgo.com/Proprietary software. Does images and hyperlinks, widely supporte...
There are several levels of UI we can provide. 1. Download a single article. The user would be able to download a single article in Plucker format. The link for Plucker download would be next to the "Printable version" link. 2. Download a group of articles. Most travellers won't be going to just one place. It'd be nice if they could add articles to...
Maps offline [ edit] Any smartphone can display Wikivoyage listings on maps, and provide GPS directions: Install OsmAnd, Within OsmAnd, download the map (s) for each area you plan to visit, On GpxMap, select the area you plan to visit and click the download icon, Open the resulting .gpx file in OsmAnd to show all listings.
Wikivoyage ( wikivoyage.org) is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable worldwide travel guide. Wikivoyage is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other project such as Wikipedia . It was originally a fork of Wikitravel that started in 2006.
Welcome to Wikivoyage The free worldwide travel guide that you can edit. The official, non-commercial sister site of Wikipedia for sightseeing, activities, cuisine and accommodation around the world; with 32,547 articles in English written by travellers like you. Read about a location near you. Got a specific question? Ask it at the tourist office
