Madeleine Price Ball schrieb:
We didn't do it for two reasons: Lack of time, because even though the tools exist, it's a lot of work. Searching through the articles, get all the image URLs, get the images, decide in which size to resize them etc...
I could help with generating the list of images to pick, I've done that work before for the OLPC activity. I use traffic stats. Traffic stats (when used appropriately) work quite well for picking which articles or images to include.
Ben Schwartz can help too, I believe he was responsible for automatically acquiring and resizing images (and even converting svg to jpg). He's the other major contributor to the OLPC activity that still has interest in the general goal of offline Wikipedias.
I think this is great news for Emmanuel and the WP1.0 project.
And the openZIM project is not a publisher of offline content. We are developing a stable, efficient format allowing free interchange of contents between reader applications and devices and providing a GPL'ed sample implementation of it.
So should I be talking to someone else? Who should I talk to?
Depends on what you actually need. We're the technicians. Out there are several projects and of course the Wikimedia Foundation.
Well, we had a "Offline Meeting" at Wikimania in Buenos Aires this summer where Samuel Klein was also participating. Our goal is to contribute the right technology to make all the offline projects able to collaborate. Currently everyone is reinventing the wheel when it comes to storage of the content.
Unfortunately, SJ had very little to do with the actual program, which ended up being created by volunteers not on the wikibrowse mailing list.
We think that the specific knowledge of the publishers should be how to select the content - which content goes where in which form - and not technical questions such as compression, storage or retrieving the data on the user's end.
OK, if I shouldn't be talking to you guys, tell me who to talk to.
I think the WP1.0 project is what you are looking for. They have these criteria to rate articles and select them by these ratings to compile special selections.
Emmanuel should get back to you.
/Manuel