[Sugar-devel] GSoC 2024 : questions about wikipedia activity

[James Cameron]

The GSoC/Ideas-2024.md "Refactor the Wikipedia Activity to generate
plain-language summaries"
https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/blob/master/Ideas-2024.md#refactor-the-wikipedia-activity-to-generate-plain-language-summaries

says "the Wikipedia activity is designed to help teachers extract
content from the Wikipedia in order to create lesson plans".

Actually, that feature set is implemented by the InfoSlicer activity.
https://github.com/sugarlabs/infoslicer

The Wikipedia activity is an offline viewer for Wikipedia pages.
https://github.com/sugarlabs/wikipedia-activity

It does not make sense to use the Wikipedia activity when online,
instead use the Browse activity, which is the web browser.

The workflow for teachers to use the Wikipedia activity is to run the
extraction process across the most popular articles, filter to remove
sensitive articles, and then generate a (very large) Sugar activity
bundle, which the students in a class can install.  It isn't used for
lesson plans, but as a general offline cache, especially for students
that have no internet while taking their class laptop home.  A very
special use case.

If the aim of the GSoC idea is to use AI to craft lesson plans from
Wikipedia content, then I suggest using the Browse activity instead.

On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 07:16:16PM +0100, Chihurumnaya Ibiam wrote:
> The Wikipedia activity isn't part of the activities that comes with Sugar, so
> you'll have to
> clone and run the activity yourself.
> 
> Our [1]contributing doc contains some helpful info.
> 
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> Ibiam Chihurumnaya
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> On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 7:04 PM Archit Agrawal <[3]architagrawal000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Walter,
>     I set up the sugar env on VirtualBox, fedora OS. But I don't see Wikipedia
>     activity in activity list.
> 
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>     On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 4:00 PM Walter Bender <[6]walter.bender at gmail.com>
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>         On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 6:41 PM Ruxue Jin <[7]ruxuejin21 at gmail.com>
>         wrote:
> 
>             Hello, 
> 
>             I am interested in wikipedia activities: [8]Refactor the Wikipedia
>             Activity to generate plain-language summaries
> 
>             But I did not see this activity in the web application. 
> 
>         By web application, I assume you mean Sugarizer. The Wikipedia App is a
>         Python app written for the Sugar Desktop.
> 
>             In this activity repo: [9]sugarlabs/wikipedia-activity (github.com)
>             , the last commit is 2015 and there are many websites returning 404
>             error. 
> 
>         I don't imagine it has been updated in a long time. That is part of
>         what motivates this project.
> 
>             I wonder if there is an instruction on how to set up the
>             environment and check the code. 
> 
>         Please follow the instructions on how to set up the Sugar env.
> 
>             Thank you!
>             Ruxue
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> [1] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/blob/master/src/contributing.md#contributing
> [2] mailto:ibiamchihurumnaya at gmail.com
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> [6] mailto:walter.bender at gmail.com
> [7] mailto:ruxuejin21 at gmail.com
> [8] https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/blob/master/Ideas-2024.md#Refactor-the-Wikipedia-Activity-to-generate-plain-language-summaries
> [9] https://github.com/sugarlabs/wikipedia-activity
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