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by LMCBoy on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @14:38

This will be really great for the "AstroInfo" articles in KStars. These are short, hyperlinked articles about astronomical concepts. They are currently in the KStars handbook, but I've been thinking for a while I'd like to break them into a separate reader and make it more tightly integrated with the rest of the program.

Some of the AstroInfo articles have already migrated into Wikipedia.

Seems like a good opportunity for two great projects (KDE and Wikimedia) to help each other out.

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Re: great!
by Torsten Rahn on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @15:05

Hi Jason :)

Of course KStars is one of the most obvious applications where Wikipedia-Integration would make sense. Actually it was even one of the first ones mentioned when we started to think of a stronger KDE-Wikipedia cooperation. For KDE-Edu in general it's certainly a huge opportunity because we could get some translated high-quality part of the "documentation" integrated that way.

Now we just need some generic mechanism which makes i18ned offline-reading easily possible with "preshrinked"/optional contents for the KDE-EDU packages.
Danimo is working on this already.

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Re: great!
by annma on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @15:27

yes, but are there free offline package of Wikipedia available? Last time I talked to danimo, that was the issue. Is it solved?

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Re: great!
by ac on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @15:50

If Wikipedia is available on CD/DVD (which it is) then I assume that offline packages should be possible (if only as cache).

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Re: great!
by Torsten Rahn on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @17:11

Not yet -- at least not in a suitable form for distributors and KDE.
Ideally we would have a tool which would make it possible for packagers to specify the desired category(/ies), certain core-keywords, the language(s) and the limit for the amount of data. The tool would then create an offline package which would be tailored down to the packagers / distributors needs.

Of course creating such a tool is certainly much less work for KDE than to recreate glossars for each educational application and translate and update them on our own ...

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Re: great!
by superstoned on Thursday 23/Jun/2005, @15:05

i can only agree - i hope the kstars developer(s) can join here!

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Re: great!
by Carsten Niehaus on Friday 24/Jun/2005, @06:37

The Kalzium-devs already joined :)

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Re: great!
by superstoned on Saturday 25/Jun/2005, @13:56

that's wonderfull news! cool to see all this cooperation! that gives one confidence the path chosen is right...

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