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=== Object of this HowTo ===

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This HowTo ~~explain~~ how to update the data files in the wikipedia activities or create new activities with other languages or ~~selection~~ of ~~different~~.

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This HowTo explains how to update the data files in the wikipedia activities or how to create new activities with other languages or different selections of articles.

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Is not very difficult if you already have a Sugar environment. If you have doubts or the information provided is not adequate, please contact me at gonzalo at laptop dot org or in the sugar-devel mailing list and I will try to help and improve this page.

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The procedure is not very difficult if you already have a Sugar environment setup. If you have doubts or the information provided is not adequate, please contact me at ''gonzalo at laptop dot org'' or in the sugar-devel mailing list and I will try to help and improve this page.

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If you want create a wikipedia activity in your language, and do not have the technical resources, but can help translating a few files and doing quality control, contact me and I will help you to create the activity.

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If you want to create a wikipedia activity in your language, and do not have the technical resources, but can help translating a few files and doing quality control, contact me and I will help you to create the activity.

=== How to Create a new wikipedia activity or update an existing activity ===

This page describes how to generate the data files needed to create a wikipedia activity like

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[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4401 Wikipedia es] or [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4411 Wikipedia en]

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[http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4401 Wikipedia es] or [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4411 Wikipedia en].

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The general idea is to download an XML dump-file (backup) containing the current Wikipedia pages for a given language, ~~this will be processed to~~ select certain pages and compress them into a self-contained Sugar activity. Whether or not to include the images from the wiki articles will have a large impact on the size of the activity.

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The general idea is to download an XML dump-file (backup) containing the current Wikipedia pages for a given language, then process the dump and select certain pages and compress them into a self-contained Sugar activity. Whether or not to include the images from the wiki articles will have a large impact on the size of the activity.

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Generating a Wikipedia activity requires a computer with a lot of available disk space, ideally lots of RAM and a working Sugar environment. It is probably best to use packages provided by your favorite Linux distribution or in a virtual machine. The wikipedia xml file is very large (almost 6 GB for the Spanish wikipedia, and it is even bigger in English), and you will need lots of space to generate temporary files. The process ~~has~~ a ~~long run-~~time, but it is mostly automated, although you will need to confirm success at each stage of the process before moving on to the next.

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Generating a Wikipedia activity requires a computer with a lot of available disk space, ideally lots of RAM and a working Sugar environment. It is probably best to use packages provided by your favorite Linux distribution or in a virtual machine. The wikipedia xml file is very large (almost 6 GB for the Spanish wikipedia, and it is even bigger in English), and you will need lots of space to generate temporary files. The process does take a lot of time, but it is mostly automated, although you will need to confirm success at each stage of the process before moving on to the next one.