Hello!
The New Readers team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been offered volunteer development by a student group from UC Berkeley, called Diversatech. They'll complete this work within their semester (ending in December).
Given results from the research into offline support in the Wikipedia Android app https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Offline_support/V1_User_research (which I shared recently on this list) and the many requests from this group, they're going to develop a prototype for consideration around what a tool might look like that allows content curators for offline files to develop a list of articles.
I'd love your feedback for what considerations they should take into play as they're looking at this. Remember that this work is exploratory and the scope will end up being smaller than what I imagine we all would like from a tool like this :)
If you're interested, you can out my quick pass at requirements, and add requirements there or other thoughts to the talk page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Offline/Content_curation
If we decide to invest further in something like this, we will be sure to run a fuller consultation as well. I'm also going to encourage them to keep their progress updated on that page, but can't guarantee that that'll happen given the short timeline and exploratory nature of the work.
Thanks, Anne
Hi again!
The student group has finished the first iteration of their prototype: https://tools.wmflabs.org/zimmerbot/
They're planning to continue this into next semester with stronger guidance... this first version was built off of the requirements here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Offline/Content_curation
With that in mind, please add your feedback to: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:New_Readers/Offline/Content_curation
Our thinking at this point is that they're working on a robust prototype to compile a list of links, but we're not sure at the Foundation if we'll be able to invest beyond that. I'd love to find ways to collaborate to make this as useful as possible to you folks - like an integration with mwoffliner to create ZIM files :)
Thanks, and let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
Anne
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 5:55 PM, Anne Gomez agomez@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello!
The New Readers team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been offered volunteer development by a student group from UC Berkeley, called Diversatech. They'll complete this work within their semester (ending in December).
Given results from the research into offline support in the Wikipedia Android app https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Offline_support/V1_User_research (which I shared recently on this list) and the many requests from this group, they're going to develop a prototype for consideration around what a tool might look like that allows content curators for offline files to develop a list of articles.
I'd love your feedback for what considerations they should take into play as they're looking at this. Remember that this work is exploratory and the scope will end up being smaller than what I imagine we all would like from a tool like this :)
If you're interested, you can out my quick pass at requirements, and add requirements there or other thoughts to the talk page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Offline/Content_curation
If we decide to invest further in something like this, we will be sure to run a fuller consultation as well. I'm also going to encourage them to keep their progress updated on that page, but can't guarantee that that'll happen given the short timeline and exploratory nature of the work.
Thanks, Anne
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