[Foundation-l] We're not just here to run a hideously popular andexpensive website, after all

[Chad]

FYI:

Already 3 extensions can do this, at various stages
of development:

* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Pdf_Book
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Pdf_Export
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Pdf_Export_Dompdf

-Chad

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
>  One of the things we are doing is localising MediaWiki. This will lower the
>  barrier to entry for many of the language projects. For many projects
>  including some big projects like Italian, Hindi, Polish and Spanish a lot
>  more work needs doing. When you wonder how this impacts the not so connected
>  world, we cannot provide off line content if it is not created on line
>  first. All the work that we do to ease the use of MediaWiki will help.
>
>  Another project that the WMF has been pushing is to develop software that
>  allows for the export of MediaWiki content in the PDF format. In this way we
>  can extract information off the Internet, print it and use it off line. This
>  is surely of relevance for projects like Wikibooks. Obviously in this way
>  much of thel formatting like Wikilinks are lost. There are multiple projects
>  that have produced information for off line usage on memory stick or CD/DVD.
>  I have a German, an English and a Farsi off line version of the Wikipedias
>  for instance.
>  Thanks,
>      GerardM
>
>  On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 8:03 PM, mike.lifeguard <mike.lifeguard at gmail.com>
>  wrote:
>
>
>
>  > Agreed. I seem to remember a talk [1] where Jimmy said "We're very
>  > interested in the digital divide, poverty worldwide..." and so on,
>  > indicating that we're not going to be just a website, but rather a genuine
>  > effort to get knowledge out to the whole world. If that's the case, what
>  > are
>  > we doing to reach beyond the internet-connected world?
>  > -Mike.lifeguard at enwikibooks
>  >
>  > [1] http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/37
>  >
>  >
>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: David Gerard [mailto:dgerard at gmail.com]
>  > Sent: March 5, 2008 6:38 AM
>  > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List; English Wikipedia
>  > Subject: [Foundation-l] We're not just here to run a hideously popular
>  > andexpensive website, after all
>  >
>  > http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/23906
>  >
>  > (in the bush in Africa)
>  >
>  > "Maybe I'm wrong, but I imagine that was the only video camera owned by
>  > a local resident for miles around. The marginal benefit that one
>  > uncommon piece of technology can have when no others are around must
>  > be immense."
>  >
>  > Getting our content and the requisite technology out to the world has,
>  > as far as I recall, always been expressly part of what we're all doing
>  > here.
>  >
>  >
>  > - d.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
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