[Server-devel] Wikiserver on XS

[Bryan Berry]

good thing there are brighter bulbs involved in olpc than myself :)

cbj I will have to look at your code for wikislice and see how it
harvests the images from wikipedia. I was having the most trouble w/
that part. Perhaps wikislice can easily be reused for wiktionary

we like wiktionary because it is quite small and it has audio samples
that say the word. Nepali kids seem really like the latter feature.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org>
To: Bryan Berry <bryan.berry at gmail.com>
Cc: server-devel at lists.laptop.org
Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Wikiserver on XS
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:06:51 -0400

Hi,

   > I tried setting up a Wiktionary server on a shared server that our
   > pilots have access to and it was a major pain in the ass. After 3
   > days I couldn't get it to work. I had a lot of trouble downloading
   > and importing the images, perhaps Chris Ball's wikislices gets this
   > right. I will have to look at the code and ask him.

Oh, you mean using the wikislice technology to build a snapshot of the
dictionary data from wiktionary, rather than the wikipedia data?  That's
an interesting idea.

   > The wikislices are alright but they don't allow for searching for
   > content which I think is an essential feature.

Yes, they do; when you run the Wikipedia activity, there's a search
toolbar that searches against the local index.  (You might be confusing
the Wikipedia activity with some hand-made Wikislice HTML content
bundles that SJ made quite a while ago.)

- Chris.