[Wikireader] english wikireaders and 0.7

Chris Ball cjb at laptop.org
Sun Sep 7 16:57:50 EDT 2008


Hi SJ,

   > 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.

The nice selection of them will cause a smaller number of articles
still, though, and 8000 is already far smaller than we'd hoped for.
Where should we draw a line and say that fewer than n-thousand
articles is not useful enough regardless of how many images we have?

   > 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.

We could probably include the images from just the pages directly
linked to by the portal page, although it will push the archive
above 100MB.  (Oh, I see you suggested something like that below.)

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

It's semi-automated (by running a bunch of scripts a couple of times),
but the tasks are:

* Find out what the largest size an image is used at on a page that
  we include is, and reduce it to that size
* Scale back the quality to reduce disk space
* Review every image chosen for inappropriateness

We're also missing all templates, I'm afraid, and we don't have a
perfect method for determining which templates are used in our pageset.
We're thinking about including the top-500 templates or so and leaving
it at that; the full template collection is 174000 template articles.

- Chris.
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Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>


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