Talk:Wikislices

Meeting notes 2/21/08

Overall goal of meeting: wiki-hacking session to improve on the tools that Zdenek and others are currently using to make & refine wikislices. Held in #olpc-content on freenode.

WP snapshots

Developing snapshots of Wikipedia at every order of magnitude from 10MB to 100GB.

WP snapshot tools

We need...

• libraries for producing different styles of wikipedia snapshots (wikitext, html, txt, pdf) from categories (special:export), topics/pages (wikiosity), and index pages (wikislices)
• libraries that can do intelligent things with metadata from history and wikimedia-commons pages
• libraries that support no-image/thumbnail/mid-res image selection
• libraries that recalculate blue v. red links given a wikislice

Wiki software glue

We need glue code/scripts to interface between similar projects : WP WikiReaders, Wikibooks, wikipedia wikislice projects, webaroo wikislices, kiwix snapshots, schools-wikipedia snapshots, ksana snapshots, WP 1.0 revision-vetting --- at least at the level of sharing index selections and a list of "good revisions" for included articles.

Offline readers

As a recent focal point, Zvi Boshernitzan and Ben Lisbakken have both made offline wikipedia-readers using Google Gears that are pretty fast and offer some nice features in terms of letting you select a set of articles, cache them locally, and browse an index. We talked last week about how to integrate Gears more tightly into a browsing experience, with hopes of pursuing a prototype withing a couple of weeks. It would be helpful to inform such a client with lists of good revisions of articles, such a those Martin Walker and Andrew Cates have developed for their own projects... and to plan for it to support offline editing as well as reading, using synchronization tools such as Mako's distributed wiki client.