See also this unfunded grant proposal [1]. This is just for offline reading capability.
If you want to level up, you could create a way to have multiple (remote) clones of a wiki that are edited offline and later synchronized with the "master wiki". This was discussed at Semantic MediaWiki Conference Fall 2014 [2]. This was also discussed at the 2015 Wikimedia Hackathon [3]. If you end up doing some work on any of this, please let me know as NASA Flight Operations would love to make use of these features. Daren [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Offline_MediaWiki_search_for_NASA_and_Medicine [2] https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2014/Create_camp#Challenge_1:_Syncing_wikis_-_.E2.80.9CGitify_MW.E2.80.9D [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100154 On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/22/15, adisha porwal <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greeting, > > I want to contribute to wikimedia and for that Outreachy > > <https://www.gnome.org/outreachy/> intership program looks perfect fit > for > > me. > > > > For participating in outreachy internship, I need a project idea that I > > will be working on during my internship period. The project idea is to > > develop a new extension to make MediaWiki available offline suggested by > > bmansurov <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/bmansurov/>. > > > > Is their any existing extension or project which implements this project > > idea or similar to it?If yes, please provide link to that project. > > > > > I'm not sure if bmansurov has anything specific in mind, but generally > speaking, there have been several attempts to do that sort of thing. > > The most prominent is Kiwix ( http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Main_Page ). I > imagine they would love to have an outreachy person help them out. > They are separate organization from WMF, so I'm not sure if there's > logistical issues there (But I think they've participated in GSOC in > the past. Qgil would know for sure if there are any issues in regards > to that) > > There are other offline things. I believe CScott was doing work > involving printable (pdf) versions of Wikipedia content ( > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Offline_content_generator ) . That > might be an area of interest to you. > > -- > -Brian > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- __________________ http://enterprisemediawiki.org http://mixcloud.com/darenwelsh http://www.beatportfolio.com _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
