[Wikireader] [Argentina] trying again

[Samuel Klein]

We're starting to work on updating WikiBrowse snapshots for the Fall.
 Here is part of a thread about updating WikiBrowse for Spanish and
possibly also French and English.

Gustavo, and anyone starting to work on offline editing, you may want
to subscribe to the wikireader list:
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/wikireader

SJ

2009/9/14 Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org>:
> Hi everyone,
>
>   > 2. make an updated Spanish snapshot -- walk through the steps
>   > that have to be done.  See the section on the WikiBrowse page
>   > about "Creating a slice of wikipedia"
>   >
>   > Chris Ball worked on most of that code and process -- please talk
>   > to him about 2.
>   >
>   > As part of 2. you will see how each script in the code repository
>   > is used.  You will also see what input you need from the
>   > wikipedia dump server, the wikipedia statistics server, and other
>   > outside sources.  [There are some active Mediawiki hackers in
>   > Argentina and Brasil who can give you a hand with some of this as
>   > well.]
>
> This mainly involves running this script:
>  http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/wikiserver/tree/woip/sh/process
> on an updated version of:
>  http://download.wikimedia.org/eswiki/20090914/eswiki-20090914-pages-articles.xml.bz2
>
> .. however, there are some manual steps needed to decide which
> articles from the full snapshot to include (we use traffic statistics
> from the wikimedia developers) and which images to include that make
> this a fairly large manual task, so it might not be the best thing to
> work on as an introduction to the project.  Let me know if you're
> interested in tackling it anyway.  :)
>
>   > * Is there any list of tasks or unsolved bugs of wikibrowser?.
>
> The main task, which I'd love help with, is modifying Wikibrowse to
> be able to handle offline edits somehow.  This isn't easy, because
> most of the users of Wikibrowse have very occasional access to the
> Internet, but it's possible.  A basic version could involve an "Edit"
> button which allows the user to edit the wiki markup, and then e-mails
> it to someone for review when the edit is saved.
>
> I think this is very important work to do, because of all the offline
> wikipedia clients in existence (there are quite a few now!), I'm not
> aware of any client that allows offline editing, yet editing is as
> much part of Wikipedia as viewing pages is.
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Chris.
> --
> Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>
> One Laptop Per Child
>