There has been a project in the past that converted a MediaWiki code base from SQL to use svn or git as message store. I do not remember which. It worked afaicr but was discontinued as not being used irl, and pretty slow, too.
Yet offine editing and then merging via an api that uses a similar approach could indeed be cool, imho.
Purodha
On 25.09.2015 17:35, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
As I wrote on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113396, I would be willing to mentor work on mw-ocg-zimwriter. I believe Kelson volunteered about to mentor work on kiwix, if Adisha would rather work on that part of the project. (Offline editing support would be very cool, for instance, although perhaps quite a technical challenge.) --scott
On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 12:44 PM, C. Scott Ananian cananian@wikimedia.org wrote:
Note that I presented a tutorial at the latest wikimania which created a simple offline version of wikipedia in ~100 lines of code: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105175
That code could be further developed into a proper tool, with user-configurable offlining, offline editing, etc. One of the slides in my presentation outlined a decent number of "next steps" that could be done.
But I personally would love to see development of the zimwriter for OCG, which would allow us to restore the "download as ZIM" option for Kiwix. A start at that code is at https://github.com/cscott/mw-ocg-zimwriter but it needs to be finished.
Editing offline is an interesting challenge. It might be subsumed on the back-end by the real-time collaboration work, since that will introduce more fine-grained mechanisms for merging changes. But actual implementations in the field are always useful, even if limited (for example, limited to edits where the article has not been modified by anyone else while the editor was offline), since getting people to actually use a tool like this always helps us learn more about how it *should* work. --scott
On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 6:47 AM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Adisha created https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113396 and I commented there before seeing this thread.
Accidentally, I related that proposal with editing offline, which is an interesting scenario that has in fact more than one related task in Phabricator -- see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106898#1665449
And yes, Kiwix projects are welcome to Outreachy / GSoC / etc, just like any other projects with a connection with Wikimedia or MediaWiki. In fact, Kiwix has been already one of the main providers of Google Code-in tasks.
On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 7:10 PM, 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.
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