[Foundation-l] Wiktionary App, beta release (Android v1.0.1b)

[J Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov]

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From: Amgine <amgine at wikimedians.ca>
To: rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner at gmail.com>
Cc: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>,
Dale Lemieux <dale.lemieux at gmail.com>, yuvipanda at gmail.com, Shealen Clare <
shealen.clare at gmail.com>, Tony Cheng <hy.cheng at utoronto.ca>,
mobile-l at lists.wikimedia.org, wiktionary-l at lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:17:50 -0700
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wiktionary App, beta release (Android v1.0.1b)
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