Talk:MediaWiki Developer Meet-Up 2010

• Thomas Gries
  • has written email notification in MW
  • wants to provide Wikipedia to libraries
  • on "hardware" such as DVD or similar
  • the goal is to have a fixed version with ISBN etc. for archiving reasons
  • fixed publication date
• Tomasz Finc
• Asaf Bartov
  • embedd a static version of hebrew Wikipedia into the OLPC computers in Israel
  • complications with the hebrew language (r-t-l support, stemming...)
  • project BenYehuda library for hebrew texts
  • rich text
  • with diacritics
• Ryan Lane
  • needs manuals, handbooks etc. including images, PDF etc.
  • HTML dump would be easy, just to copy over the data to the workstation and view in Firefox
  • article and image selection is the more pressing problem
• Chun Cui
  • looks for a way how to get plain ASCII text out of XML dumps
  • for analysis of the language corpus
• Fabien Coulon
  • presents Okawix
  • using Zeno, but want to switch to ZIM
  • automizing the selection of articles
  • universal format to describe selections

Licensing

link to history is completely fine

• gives a list of all versions
• gives a list of authors

link to the license text

Collections

use the collections extension from PediaPress to make dumps of collections - can be in any format then

• blacklists needed - eg. for "kosher Wikipedia"

Hacking

working on Collections extension

• seperate the UI from the "backend"
• collection is kept in a PHP array in the session
• make a CLI to run the collection
• add more interfaces for output - PDF (as now), XML, HTML, ZIM