This is a great initiative. I wonder if this would be something worth working on in one of the upcoming hackathons. There is one in Berline in March; if there was a group that would be interested in working specifically on this and can go that could be really cool!
There is also a hackathon before Wikimania every year; that might be a little more realistic timeframe :) Jessie On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Nikhil Sheth <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Adam, > > I've been using Tiddlywiki (http://www.tiddlywiki.com) to have a local > personal wiki of my own. > Its biggest advantage is that the whole thing is in 1 single HTML file > which you can take around with you. It has all the wiki syntax, custom html > formatting between <html></html> tags, search, automatic backup/save, > tags... a lot of features. It's editable on Firefox and in browsers where > it's not editable, it's at least viewable. > > It can't embed images into itself, but can display and link to local files > which you store in the same folder or subfolder etc. > Check it out. Maybe we can mix the technologies or import one to the other. > > > Cheers, > Nikhil Sheth > +91-966-583-1250 > Pune, India > > > > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:28 AM, Adam Wight <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> If I can re-open this thread, I am very interested in moving towards a >> read-write offline platform. After helpful feedback from people in this >> community, I have decided to start two wikis in the hope of a >> collaborative >> implementation, (content transcluded below) >> >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Offline_Editorship >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Offline/Wiki >> >> ============== >> >> Motivation >> >> Offline reader software packages lack the ability to edit. The wiki >> concept should not be abandoned even in this seemingly marginal use case. >> Collaboration becomes possible from any remote situation, really >> interesting applications include a small community's school contributing >> back to Wikipedia, or scientists who use a wiki to coordinate their work. >> >> Strategies >> >> Note that these approache are exclusive. >> * Browser-based editing saves to an HTML5 cache >> * Alternative to mediawiki page rendering >> * Edit mode for Kiwix >> >> ========= >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Offline-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Offline-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l > > -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation *
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