[Wikireader] english wikireaders and 0.7

[Martin Walker]

Things are looking very promising for the Version 0.7 selection - we 
should have a complete article list within a week or so, containing 
about 30,000 articles organized by a combination of quality and 
importance.  With our basic system of compression , using I think 
probably Zeno format), I believe we should be able to include 30,000 
long-ish articles with thumbnails on one DVD, along with Kiwix and some 
index pages.  I'd be interested to see how it would work with your 
compression system - we could get a few people to test that, I think.

I know how you love metadata, SJ, and we now have loads of it (from 1.4 
million articles) - so we can customize the selection for you at will 
using quality, wikiproject, or the four importance paramaters.  Since 
this is for kids in specific places, we can emphasize dinosaurs or 
birds, exclude serial killers, or include all articles from (say) 
Uganda, all as requested.  Let me know if this feature is useful.  We 
don't have an equivalent ranking for images, I'm afraid - for V0.7 we 
just include all legal images (as thumbnails).  As for a "main page", 
the plan is to have a set of index pages generated by bot and then 
corrected by a manual "reality check", but that will take another month 
or two.

I'd really like to make sure that we make sure we work together in the 
coming months, because I think we can avoid a lot of duplicate work if 
we share our best resources, scripts, etc.  Once the selection is done 
(~ 1st Sept), should we hold an IRC discussion on how we can best 
collaborate?

Martin

Samuel Klein wrote:
> There's lots of motivation to get an english wikireader, say, taking 
> advantage of the article selection and processing of 0.7 .
> OLPC could include this in the upcoming G1G1 machines this winter / 
> early next year.  Other users could test wikireaders that read this 
> zipped format on their own machines, which would flesh out the reader 
> code.
>
> Martin -- what's the status on the 0.7 articlelist?  Do you have a 
> similar imagelist that ranks images by importance to that set of articles?
> How is work on a 0.7 main page?  I'd love to see how large a snapshot 
> is with our curent wikireader code (without even moving to 7z, or 
> trimming the list).
>
> SJ
>