Author: blog

Description:
Same as bug 15468, but standards-compliant: Use HTML5 offline stores instead of Google Gears.

"The resources [1] and [2] already show some implementations for offline
(read-only) access to MediaWiki wikis, but edit functions are still missing.

The aim of this bugzilla is to find a reliable solution for full-featured
MediaWiki functionality including (an at least limited) page editing even when
no online access is available temporarily. Further and improved concepts are
sought for handling the increased possibility of edit conflicts.

The proposed extension may be more useful for smaller wikis like private and
enterprise MediaWikis having less edit activitiy than for example the large
Wikipedia projects.

[1] "Google Gears hack: MediaWiki offline functionality in less than one hour"
http://andreas.schmidt.name/blog/2007/10/google-gears-hack-mediawiki-offline-functionality-in-less-than-one-hour.html
[2] MediaWiki offline support thanks to Google Gears
http://wiki.yobi.be/wiki/Mediawiki_LocalServer
[3] http://gears.google.com/"

"further resources

[4] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Google_Gears "Z.B. started working on a mediawiki
reader and thumbwiki implementation in Gears (see gearswiki.theidea.net) that
imports mediawiki dumps and runs quite snappily for wikis of up to a few
hundred pages. (import and export can be slow still.)"
[5] http://gearswiki.theidea.net (Gears required)"

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement