Somewhere I read that wikifundi is working towards synchronizing with the online wikipedias. Is this something for the near future or very far out??? That would be REALLY exciting!
Also, can wikifundi be used for a wikipedia / wiktionary in a newly setup language - or only for the few languages currently available for download???
Thanks, Manfred
Hi Manfred
On 11.02.20 17:01, Manfred Gruening wrote:
Somewhere I read that wikifundi is working towards synchronizing with the online wikipedias. Is this something for the near future or very far out??? That would be REALLY exciting!
It is not really true. We have a ticket to simplify that task here: https://github.com/openzim/wikifundi/issues/97
... but it won't be automatic and it is not implemented.
Also, can wikifundi be used for a wikipedia / wiktionary in a newly setup language - or only for the few languages currently available for download???
It could, but a big part of the WikiFundi is editorial work to choose which articles, help, content to bring in the local Mediawiki... This work has to be done.
Regards Emmanuel
Hi Manfred,
Last year Mark Herschberger developed a first prototype of what he called Multilateral, Asynchronous Bidirectional Synchronisation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/MarkAHershberger/MABS:_Multilateral,_Asynchronous,_Bidirectional_Synchronisation_(of_wikis) (MABS). The prototype did work, but it did not go much farther because time and funding - the project is now on hold (and I’m not entirely Mark got around publishing all his code, I should check with him).
As for getting additional languages, as Emmanuel said there’s a bit of work around selecting and preparing the content that should go on a WikiFundi instance. This tool was initially developed to help teach editing, and thus goes a bit further than just slapping a copy of Wikipedia on an offline Mediawiki. We certainly could prepare more than just the currently available French and English versions, but that’d be more labour intensive than simply pressing a button and would require a bit of funding (not much, but still).
Cheers, Stephane
Le 11 févr. 2020 à 17:01, Manfred Gruening manfred_gruening@sil.org a écrit :
Somewhere I read that wikifundi is working towards synchronizing with the online wikipedias. Is this something for the near future or very far out??? That would be REALLY exciting!
Also, can wikifundi be used for a wikipedia / wiktionary in a newly setup language - or only for the few languages currently available for download???
Thanks, Manfred
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