David,<br><br>That is a great user story about your niece. That is *exactly* the sort of thing that I want to see out of OLPC.<br><br>I'm a fellow volunteer at OLPC, more interested in content than anything else. You ought to get together with SJ our content director. It's a big and long time wikipedian. He could probably best tell you what's been done, and what is yet needed.
<br><br>Seth<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 2, 2008 8:56 PM, David Farning <<a href="mailto:dfarning@gmail.com">dfarning@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello all,<br><br>I would like to thank you all for the great work you are doing with<br>the laptop.<br><br>First, a real life reaction to the laptop. I bought the laptop for<br>myself under the g1g1 program. I tested it for a few days for before
<br>deciding that the xo was too valuable to sit in my office.<br><br>I gave it to my 5th grade niece for Christmas. It was a big hit.<br><br>How does this relate to the list? When I saw her again for new years,<br>she was showing all of her cousins how to use wikipedia. The kids
<br>spent the rest of the day sledding and seaching wikipedia. How<br>amazing is that.<br><br>This positive response has encouraged me to get involved with the<br>project. My interest is helping create the library.<br><br>
I have been looking at the process of bringing content into the library.<br>I am interested in generalizing wiki splice to<br>allow it to import item from different sources and automatically<br>create .xols.<br><br>My basic premises are that content curators should not have to worry
<br>about the details of making a bundle. Programmers should worry about<br>the content in the bundle.<br><br>I have started rewritting wikisplice in more generalized manner so that<br>it can take different types of input and build the bundles
<br>automatically.<br><br>A interesting development is mwlib found at<br><a href="http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/wiki" target="_blank">http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/wiki</a> that is sponsored by the<br>wikimedia foundation. It is a library for parsing raw mediawiki text.
<br><br>I will hopefully have some prototype code ready for submission in a few days.<br><br>Thank<br><font color="#888888">David Farning<br>_______________________________________________<br>Library mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Library@lists.laptop.org">
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