As I wrote on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113396, I would be willing to mentor work on mw-ocg-zimwriter. I believe Kelson volunteered about to mentor work on kiwix, if Adisha would rather work on that part of the project. (Offline editing support would be very cool, for instance, although perhaps quite a technical challenge.) --scott
On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 12:44 PM, C. Scott Ananian <canan...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Note that I presented a tutorial at the latest wikimania which created > a simple offline version of wikipedia in ~100 lines of code: > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105175 > > That code could be further developed into a proper tool, with > user-configurable offlining, offline editing, etc. One of the slides > in my presentation outlined a decent number of "next steps" that could > be done. > > But I personally would love to see development of the zimwriter for > OCG, which would allow us to restore the "download as ZIM" option for > Kiwix. A start at that code is at > https://github.com/cscott/mw-ocg-zimwriter but it needs to be > finished. > > Editing offline is an interesting challenge. It might be subsumed on > the back-end by the real-time collaboration work, since that will > introduce more fine-grained mechanisms for merging changes. But > actual implementations in the field are always useful, even if limited > (for example, limited to edits where the article has not been modified > by anyone else while the editor was offline), since getting people to > actually use a tool like this always helps us learn more about how it > *should* work. > --scott > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 6:47 AM, Quim Gil <q...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> Adisha created https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113396 and I commented >> there before seeing this thread. >> >> Accidentally, I related that proposal with editing offline, which is an >> interesting scenario that has in fact more than one related task in >> Phabricator -- see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106898#1665449 >> >> And yes, Kiwix projects are welcome to Outreachy / GSoC / etc, just like >> any other projects with a connection with Wikimedia or MediaWiki. In fact, >> Kiwix has been already one of the main providers of Google Code-in tasks. >> >> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 7:10 PM, adisha porwal <porwaladi...@gmail.com> >> 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. >>> >>> -- >>> Regards >>> Adisha Porwal >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikitech-l mailing list >>> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Quim Gil >> Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > -- > (http://cscott.net) -- (http://cscott.net) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
