That's interesting, although I think it is too large a project for the Outreachy program.
As an aside, its not entirely clear to me in the grant proposal what precisely is the use-case of the proposed software (Specifically, what features are needed that would make it make sense to make something new, as opposed to improve existing offline projects). -- -bawolff On 9/22/15, Daren Welsh <darenwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 9/22/15, 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. >> > >> >> >> 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 >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > > > > -- > __________________ > http://enterprisemediawiki.org > http://mixcloud.com/darenwelsh > http://www.beatportfolio.com > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
