jwild@wikimedia.org:
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Christoph Kepper < christoph.kepper@pediapress.com> wrote:
Am 28.02.2012 um 21:02 schrieb Jessie Wild:
This is a great initiative. I wonder if this would be something worth working on in one of the upcoming hackathons. There is one in Berline in March; if there was a group that would be interested in working specifically on this and can go that could be really cool!
The Berlin Hackathon takes place from June 1-3. So there is still a little more time. (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Berlin_Hackathon_2012)
Best, Christoph
Oh - thanks for the correction, Cristoph! I guess I was thinking it was
before the chapters conference in March.
You know, it might be worth considering if there is a LARGE offline meeting we want to do together: to get together and work on the specific pieces of the Offline system. There are a lot of things we are working on that are *almost* there, but that just need the final push - whether that be tools for article selection, package compilation, reader functionality, or file support.
Would this be of interest to people? I would really love to see these projects scale together to the next level, and would love to devote energy into planning this if we could compile a critical mass.
Jessie
It's difficult to get a grasp on which offline projects are being actively pursued. From the meta.wikimedia.org pages, it looks like things break down thus:
* content selection for each language * dumping content to offline formats: collections, dumphtml * offline readers: Kiwix, OLPC, Openmoko, mobile * offline read-write * print editions
The dump tools already share output formats, but could be better integrated over intermediate or input file format.
Is it desirable to print from any step in the workflow? Maybe mwlib could be embedded into readers...
What are the other big intersections between projects?
-Adam