[Sugar-devel] Query regarding "Wikipedia(EN)" activity

[Gonzalo Odiard]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:

> On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 01:33 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> > The WikipediaEn activity does not include the images due to space
> > considerations.
> >
> >
>
> Are all the images stored on the same server? Is the collection of
> images available for download?


The images can be downloaded and stored in the server, see:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Wikipedia/HowTo#Optimize_the_data_and_download_images
In fact we can prepare a version with the images included if is needed.



> How large is the collection? Seems like
> this might be a good addition to a schoolserver, enabling users the
> ability to view images while not really connected to the internet with a
> little server dns trickery on the schoolserver.
>
>
+1

Gonzalo



> Jerry
>
>
> > Gonzalo
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 5:28 AM, Ajay Garg <ajay at activitycentral.com>
> > wrote:
> >         Hi all.
> >
> >
> >         It seems that Wikipedia  activities are supposed to work well
> >         even in offline mode (i.e. when the user is not connected to
> >         internet).
> >         It mostly does;  except that no images are loaded (all
> >         images-URLs seem to be remote ones).
> >
> >         A bug? Does this defeat the intended purpose of having this
> >         set of activities at first place?
> >         Or is it intended (perhaps due to space considerations) ?
> >
> >
> >
> >         Regards,
> >
> >         Ajay Garg
> >         Dextrose Developer
> >         Activity Central: http://activitycentral.com
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