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

[Ajay Garg]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:

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> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
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>> On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 01:33 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
>> > The WikipediaEn activity does not include the images due to space
>> > considerations.
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>> Are all the images stored on the same server? Is the collection of
>> images available for download?
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> The images can be downloaded and stored in the server, see:
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> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Wikipedia/HowTo#Optimize_the_data_and_download_images
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Thanks Gonzalo.

Has anyone tried bundling Wikipedia with all the images, so that the
activity is completely usable in offline mode?
If yes, how much did its size come to be?

(I have got a 56KBPS connection; so don't want to start something which
might take days to complete :P).




> In fact we can prepare a version with the images included if is needed.
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>> 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.
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> +1
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> Gonzalo
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>>  Jerry
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>> > 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) ?
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>> >
>> >         Regards,
>> >
>> >         Ajay Garg
>> >         Dextrose Developer
>> >         Activity Central: http://activitycentral.com
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Regards,

Ajay Garg
Dextrose Developer
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