Wikibrowse/flyer

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Wikibrowse/flyer


What is the project?

We need a flyer for events like WikiMania on our work on Wikislices and our excellent Wikireader Activity. The flyer should have the following components:

  • SVG format
  • Exported and saved to PNG and PDF when finished
  • Has a paragraph of information on moulinwiki and one on Wikibrowse proper
  • Have at least one version for half-A4 printing (for SJ at WikiMania

Contact

This is a project with a short deadline, but if you would like to participate of have something to add use the following methods of communication.

Steps to Completion

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One Laptop per Child's WikiBrowse Activity serves large amounts of compressed Wikipedia data, quickly. Constructed in Python, it uses C functions to pull out articles from a series of small compressed blocks


WikiBrose serves wikipedia content out of a compressed copy of the XML dump file after indexing it. The architecture is that there are C functions to pull out articles, and several interfaces to those C functions: the main interface is the iPhone app, but there's also a web server (written in Ruby with Mongrel) that runs locally and serves up pages from the compressed archive.