On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 19:28 +0200, rupert THURNER wrote:

While I really appreciate that wiktionary is covered so prominently I am a little confused as well. What is, from a technical standpoint, different in this app compared to the wikipedia app?

rupert

The Wiktionary mobile app accesses the Wiktionary project. It is developing contexts for that project, such as the dialectic audio pronunciation files, WOTD, and (probably in a future release) a rich interface to the translation data embedded in Wiktionary articles.

At the same time, it is removing some of the Wikipedia context, like the extensive geographic code. In the process the project is helping to lay a foundation for a Mediawiki app framework that is not specific to any of the Wikimedia Foundation projects.

But the UCOSP is primarily about putting students in an opensource production scenario, giving them real world tasks in an apprenticeship model and helping them develop skills to work in a geographically dispersed team. In other words, training potential WMF developers.

Amgine