Last modified: 2010-11-23 04:24:29 UTC
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)
see also bug 23798
marking as duplicate to merge with HTML5 offline support bug since gears has switched to that. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 23798 ***
