[Wikireader] english wikireaders and 0.7

[Samuel Klein]

Can you say more about this aggression against images?

I should think the smaller the # of articles the greater the impact of
a nice selection of them :-)
But I know what you mean -- you'd rather spend space on text.

My take : a small set of images is important to convey the
availability of images once one is online -- I'd be interested in
pulling out a few hundred for that purpose.

What is it that takes time in the prep and review process?  How about
one image per article linked from the main page?

SJ

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   > Chris will soon send out a link to the new activity for people to
>   > download onto their XO.
>
> Here it is; it'll appear once it's finished uploading (should be 98MB):
>
>   http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/enwiki/WikipediaEN-1.xo
>
> SJ, there's no blacklist being applied at all -- since we're down to
> 8000 articles, perhaps it's plausible to look through each article name
> and pick out the obviously inappropriate ones?  Here's the article
> list:
>
>   http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/enwiki/en-g1g1-8k.txt
>
> The "About Wikipedia" page linked from the portal page needs to be
> replaced with an English version, I'm not sure where to get the same
> kind of text in English from.
>
> We decided to skip a local image cache because of the meagre article
> count, because it takes a while to prepare and review, and because a
> net connection will often be available to our users this time around.
>
> Thanks all,
>
> - Chris.
> --
> Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>
>