That's interesting, although I think it is too large a project for the Outreachy program.
As an aside, its not entirely clear to me in the grant proposal what precisely is the use-case of the proposed software (Specifically, what features are needed that would make it make sense to make something new, as opposed to improve existing offline projects).
-- -bawolff
On 9/22/15, Daren Welsh darenwelsh@gmail.com wrote:
See also this unfunded grant proposal [1]. This is just for offline reading capability.
If you want to level up, you could create a way to have multiple (remote) clones of a wiki that are edited offline and later synchronized with the "master wiki". This was discussed at Semantic MediaWiki Conference Fall 2014 [2]. This was also discussed at the 2015 Wikimedia Hackathon [3].
If you end up doing some work on any of this, please let me know as NASA Flight Operations would love to make use of these features.
Daren
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Offline_MediaWiki_search_for_NASA... [2] https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2014/Create_camp#Challenge_1... [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100154
On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
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
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