[Wikireader] english wikireaders and 0.7

[Samuel Klein]

@martin -- How about having a Friday afternoon wikireader meeting?
For this week, whether or not we meet, a pressing question is : Generating
the main page.  For the spanish WP, Madeleine did most of the main page by
hand with a bit of help.  We may have to do the same here until better
scripts are set up.

A couple people built the main page for our spanish-language bundle more or
less by hand from a portal template.

Metadata :

1. metadata that is currently particularly useful for us is:
 - a blacklist of article titles, and a blacklist of images, for the very
few that we explicitly leave out despite other metadata
 - a whitelist of both, again to ensure inclusion.

2. In a general system, I'd like to see this tagged with the name of the
group associated; say olpc-peru-blacklist and olpc-peru-whitelist.

@cfabian -- testing this on bee units sounds like a fun test of the metadata
slimming!

SJ

ps - any news from the offline spanish wp project that got started a while
back?


On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Martin Walker <walkerma at potsdam.edu> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>
>
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