On 9/22/15, adisha porwal porwaladisha@gmail.com wrote:
Greeting, I want to contribute to wikimedia and for that Outreachy https://www.gnome.org/outreachy/ intership program looks perfect fit for me.
For participating in outreachy internship, I need a project idea that I will be working on during my internship period. The project idea is to develop a new extension to make MediaWiki available offline suggested by bmansurov https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/bmansurov/.
Is their any existing extension or project which implements this project idea or similar to it?If yes, please provide link to that project.
I'm not sure if bmansurov has anything specific in mind, but generally speaking, there have been several attempts to do that sort of thing.
The most prominent is Kiwix ( http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Main_Page ). I imagine they would love to have an outreachy person help them out. They are separate organization from WMF, so I'm not sure if there's logistical issues there (But I think they've participated in GSOC in the past. Qgil would know for sure if there are any issues in regards to that)
There are other offline things. I believe CScott was doing work involving printable (pdf) versions of Wikipedia content ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Offline_content_generator ) . That might be an area of interest to you.
-- -Brian