[Wikimediaindia-l] [Offline-l] troubleshooting Wikipedia for schools offline project

[Shiju Alex]

Why did you decide to go with your own custom solution (that's what is
> implied by your message, sorry if it's not the case) instead of
>
>> contributing to Kiwix so that other projects can benefit from this all
>>
> ; aka the reader, the tools, the standard, etc.
>

Sorry if you find it offensive. I never meant it like that. We released the
CD/DVD in 2010 April. The reasons for developing Wiki2CD is documented at
http://thottingal.in/blog/2010/04/17/mlwikioncd/ and
http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/creating-malayalam-wikipedia-cd/



I agree though that schools-targeted versions should include
>
>> school-friendly content (whatever that means locally) ; that's why SOS
>>
> version is so successful.
>

That itself is the reason. English SOS version is very good. My point is,
all offline versions that are targeting the schools (including Hindi and
Marathi) should be created in the same way.





Yeah




On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:44 PM, renaud gaudin <rgaudin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Malayalam wiki community has indeed tried the Kiwix solution before we
> > decided to develop our own solution. It is sad to find that still Kiwix
> is
> > not in a state where we can create the CD/DVD with out the
> developer/expert
> > support. But it is good to see that the issue with non-latin
> scripts/fonts
> > are fixed. But the article selection feature needs to be enabled for
> Kiwix
> > so that any one can create their own version of Wikipedia CD (as can be
> done
> > using Wiki2CD).
>
> I agree Kiwix should provide an easy way to create a custom selection
> and make a ZIM of it.
> It is not disabled or hidden ; everything is documented on the Kiwix
> wiki and sources are available.
> The problem is that it's difficult and painful.
> What we could do is create a tool on top of existing ones that would
> allow easy selection/zim-creation.
>
> Why did you decide to go with your own custom solution (that's what is
> implied by your message, sorry if it's not the case) instead of
> contributing to Kiwix so that other projects can benefit from this all
> ; aka the reader, the tools, the standard, etc.
>
> I find it offensive to the only spare-time developer of Kiwix that you
> reproach the lack of features but still decide to build something on
> your own.
>
> > But the point here is not the software, whether we need to provide whole
> > dump of a wiki to schools. Definitely I am not for it due to my
> experience
> > with the Malayalam Wikipedia CD.
>
> Can you elaborate ? This is very fuzzy.
> I agree though that schools-targeted versions should include
> school-friendly content (whatever that means locally) ; that's why SOS
> version is so successful.
>
> renaud
>
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