Offline

see also Offline projects.

(on hiatus as of mid-2012; WMF engineering is focusing on other goals)

Feature justification
Support a healthy offline eco system of Wikimedia project data. Through a number of initiatives the WMF is looking to increase the reach of our community projects to readers and contributors that don't have dedicated internet connections.

User requirements

 * Extend the functionality of the existing collections extension.
 * Improve the usability of one of the existing offline wikipedia readers.
 * Continue to support and extend the XML snapshots at download.
 * Resurface the HTML snapshots.

Schedule

 * Extend collections extension - Q4 2010 / Q1 2011
 * Offline Wikimedia Project Reader - Q1 2011
 * XML Snapshots - Ongoing
 * HTML Snapshots - Community led project