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.
- Mailing list - http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/Wikireader
- Email - Email wiki-user Seth if you have any other questions about the flyer
Steps to Completion
- Find introduction paragraph about Wikibrowse
- Download graphic design and SVG's at Resources
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Paragraph
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.