Openmoko's WikiReader

Posted Dec 16, 2009 20:42 UTC (Wed) by frazier (guest, #3060)
Parent article: Openmoko's WikiReader

The device could cache edits locally, he said, which could be uploaded from a PC when the microSD card was pulled for an update.

This seems like a really bad idea to me. With the lag between edits on the device and updating Wikipedia, it isn't difficult to imagine some nasty merge issues. Beyond that, who wants to do any significant editing with that tiny onscreen keyboard?

Openmoko's WikiReader

Posted Dec 16, 2009 21:30 UTC (Wed) by cjb (guest, #40354) [Link] (1 responses)

> This seems like a really bad idea to me. With the lag between edits on the
device and updating Wikipedia, it isn't difficult to imagine some nasty
merge issues.

Well, you're supposed to read the linked post, wherein Mako elaborates:

"When the data on the card is updated, messages from this log could be
uploaded somewhere --- perhaps the talk pages of the articles in question or
some dedicated page or ticketing queue. Editors could help merge these
changes back into the articles."

Openmoko's WikiReader

Posted Dec 16, 2009 21:49 UTC (Wed) by frazier (guest, #3060) [Link]

Sure enough. What he has in mind makes much more sense than edits. Calling them "comments" or "notes" would be more accurate I think.