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

[Walter Bender]

My mistake. I will update the project description.

On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 4:18 PM James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Ibiam Chihurumnaya
> > [2]ibiamchihurumnaya at gmail.com
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >     [4]Mailtrack  Sender notified by  27/03/24, 10:59:55
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> >
> >     *
> >     On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 4:00 PM Walter Bender <[6]
> walter.bender at gmail.com>
> >     wrote:
> >
> >         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
> > [3] mailto:architagrawal000 at gmail.com
> > [4]
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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
> > [10] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
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