Re: Cutting a slice of wikipedia - CDPedia

2008-04-10 Thread Alejandro J. Cura
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday we had a mini-sprint with argentinian pythonistas and we discussed Alecu's CDPedia which is a Python toolchain that does are good job of cutting a slice of wikipedia and cutting off the least interesting

Re: Cutting a slice of wikipedia - CDPedia

2008-04-10 Thread Alejandro J. Cura
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's nice to see a python toolchain for this (though I don't see any code at that url?) They exist in other languages as well. We've been working with Linterweb's Kiwix (kiwix.org) and the Schools-Wikipedia, which use their

Re: Cutting a slice of wikipedia - CDPedia

2008-04-10 Thread Alejandro J. Cura
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola, Alecu. ¿Como esta? Hola Edu, muy bien, muchas gracias. ¿Como estás vos? Is there a design spec for CDPedia? Yes, but it's mostly in spanish. But I see you may have no problem with it! ;-)

Re: Cutting a slice of wikipedia - CDPedia

2008-04-10 Thread Alejandro J. Cura
Hi SJ, On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to see the auto-selection code; I don't find it in the trunk atm. We played with some sample code, and have a bunch of ideas on the design docs, but the auto-selection is not finished yet. I do see hints of

Re: Cutting a slice of wikipedia - CDPedia

2008-04-09 Thread Charles Merriam
Ah, the old days were cutting out the images and putting the whole thing on one's cell phone. Seriously, one might consider: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Simple is about 10,000 articles written in simple English, aimed at children trying to learn English. FYI, Charles. On Tue,

Re: Cutting a slice of wikipedia - CDPedia

2008-04-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Charles Merriam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, the old days were cutting out the images and putting the whole thing on one's cell phone. :-) Seriously, one might consider: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Simple is about 10,000 articles written in

Re: Cutting a slice of wikipedia - CDPedia

2008-04-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
[fixed the server-devel list address] On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Charles Merriam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, the old days were cutting out the images and putting the whole thing on one's cell phone. :-) Seriously, one might consider: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Re: Cutting a slice of wikipedia - CDPedia

2008-04-09 Thread Samuel Klein
It's nice to see a python toolchain for this (though I don't see any code at that url?) They exist in other languages as well. We've been working with Linterweb's Kiwix (kiwix.org) and the Schools-Wikipedia, which use their own toolchains. Alecu, take a look at the [[wikislice]] project on the

Re: Cutting a slice of wikipedia - CDPedia

2008-04-09 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday we had a mini-sprint with argentinian pythonistas and we discussed Alecu's CDPedia which is a Python toolchain that does are good job of cutting a slice of wikipedia and cutting off the least interesting

Re: Cutting a slice of wikipedia - CDPedia

2008-04-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's nice to see a python toolchain for this (though I don't see any code at that url?) They exist in other languages as well. We've been working with Linterweb's Kiwix (kiwix.org) and the Schools-Wikipedia, which use their

Re: Cutting a slice of wikipedia - CDPedia

2008-04-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's nice to see a python toolchain for this (though I don't see any code at that url?) They exist in other languages as well. We've been working with Linterweb's Kiwix (kiwix.org) and the Schools-Wikipedia, which use their

Cutting a slice of wikipedia - CDPedia

2008-04-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
Yesterday we had a mini-sprint with argentinian pythonistas and we discussed Alecu's CDPedia which is a Python toolchain that does are good job of cutting a slice of wikipedia and cutting off the least interesting parts to make it fit. His project is here http://code.google.com/p/cdpedia/