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This submission is merged with two other related submissions. Please see - Submissions/Creating offline version of Wiki content - Solutions and Challenges


Information

This is an open submission for Wikimania 2010.


Title of the submission
Offline & alternate versions of WikiMedia Wiki content
Type of submission (workshop, tutorial, panel, presentation)
Workshop
Author of the submission
Shiju Alex (with the help of user:Walkerma)
E-mail address or username (if username, please confirm email address in Special:Preferences)
shijualexonline@gmail.com
walkerma_AT_potsdam.edu
Country of origin
India
Affiliation, if any (organization, company etc.)
Personal homepage or blog
http://shijualex.wordpress.com/
Abstract


The goal of this workshop is to discuss various topics regarding the offline & alternate versions of WikiMedia Wiki content. The current offline & alternate versions, issues, processes, best practices, issues, and Q&A session will be part of this workshop.

Currently, at least the following offline & alternate versions are available for the WikiMedia Wiki content:

  • CD/DVD
  • Pedia press & Create PDF (Wiki articles in PDF/Print format)
  • Mobile Wiki
  • Wiki reader

NOTE:

  • By offline version I mean, CD/DVD, Pediapress & Create PDF (PDF and printed book), Wiki reader, and so on
  • By alternate version I mean, Mobile wiki

Please let me know if you know any other Offline & alternate versions.

We will also discuss about the important points that needs to be taken care while developing solutions for the offline & alternate versions.

The English/Latin script centric approach of offline & alternate versions definitely needs to be changed. We will explore the possibility of achieving this goal with the help of different language communities. Many users working on wikis that use non-latin scripts, will share their experience regarding the current offline & alternate versions. The feedback from the people outside Wiki community about the current offline & alternate versions will also be shared.

Some of the points that can be discussed as part of this:

  • Introduction to the available offline & alternate versions
  • Comparison of the current tools
  • How many wiki communities are aware about the current offline & alternate versions.
  • How the current offline & alternate versions are received/used across the different language wiki communities?
  • Improving the current processes involved in the creation of the offline & alternate versions.
  • Finding better solutions for offline & alternate versions
  • Developing solutions for automating the repetitive manual tasks, such as article selection and avoidance of vandalism.
  • Rendering issues of non-Latin scripts for each offline & alternate version
  • Overcoming the limitations of current CD/DVD format.
  • Making the hardware manufacturers aware about the rendering issues in their devices.
  • Involving the developers from non-Latin languages
  • Usability of offline & alternate versions
  • Special solutions for the third world countries

Emphasis will be more on the CD/DVD and PediaPress versions, since the wiki community has direct control over these solutions. The Mobile Wiki and Wiki reader solutions are largely depend on the device manufacturers. We can list the current status and submit a report to the device manufacturers.

The following users have agreed to be part of this workshop:

  1. User:Walkerma - from English Wikipedia (English Wikipedia CD/DVD projects)
  2. User:Shijualex - from Malayalam Wikipedia (Malayalam Wikipedia CD and book project)
  3. User:Santhosh.thottingal - From Malayalam Wikipedia (Developer who created Wiki2CD software for the Malayalam Wikipedia CD)
  4. User:tfinc - Engineering Program Manger for Mobile and Offline from Wikimedia Foundation
Track (People and Community/Knowledge and Collaboration/Infrastructure)
Infrastructure
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  1. Tinucherian 06:51, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Mayooranathan 20:46, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  3. 80686 see also Submissions/Wikipedia Offline, the focus of that talk is about openZIM which provides high compression, fulltext search and fast random access to the compressed contents even on tiny devices, maybe we can stick the things together to a working toolchain - the idea of openZIM was to provide a standard for offline content to make it easier to publish offline and to avoid reinventing the wheel over and over again
  4. Multichill 12:46, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Kelson 12:53, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Kocio 12:44, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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