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 link to the license text
 * gives a list of all versions
 * gives a list of authors

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