has anyone made a version of the Wikipedia app for android, which uses a downloaded copy of Wikipedia instead of their servers?

asking for a myself.

@linear https://get.kiwix.org/en/solutions/applications/kiwix-reader/ ?

if you are about to suggest something like Kiwix that uses what is effective a scraped web archive of Wikipedia, then you are answering a different question than what i asked.

@buherator

@linear I'm afraid I don't see the difference between scraping and downloading a copy of something

@buherator@infosec.place well in one case i am running of the actual source of truth data, and in the other i am using a pre rendered copy of it.

it is the difference between watching a movie and watching a phone camera recording of the movie downloaded from someone on the internet.

the fact that the wikimedia provides their own "phone screen recording" version for kiwix does not change what it is.

the wikipedia app is a full fledged editor, not just a viewer. i want all of its functionality, and for all of it to work fully offline.

i cannot edit the underlying "kiwix database" and get new pages if i wanted to, because there is no such thing, it is a static rendered page.

if what i want requires no less than running an entire copy of mediawiki inside the app to serve the REST api to the frontend, then that i what i seek

@linear Gotcha, thanks for the explanation!

i want to download the wikipedia database, and then i want my Android tablet to use that instead of contacting wikipedia.

if that involves spinning up an entire copy of mediawiki to serve the REST api then that is what i want, not a web archive

a web archive of wikipedia is not wikipedia in the same manner that this picture of a pipe is not a pipe