An Excerpt from Hansel and Gretel

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This page in a nutshell: We are publishing selections of Wikipedia articles for offline use in Kiwix releases, in print, or for distribution on flash drives/memory cards.ShortcutsWP:1.0WP:1 Wikipedia 1.0 — (talk)FAQ — To do Release version toolsGuide — (talk) — (stats) Article selection process(talk)Version 0.8 bot selection Version 0.8 feedback IRC channel (IRC) Release criteria Review team (FAQ) Version 0.8 release (manual selection) (t) "Selection" project (Talk) schools selectionOffline WP for Indian Schools CORE TOPICSCORE SUPPLEMENTCore topics - 1,000(Talk) (COTF) (bot) TORRENT (Talk) "Selection" project for kids ((t)) WORK VIA WIKIPROJECTS (talk) Pushing to 1.0 (talk) Static content subcom. This is the Version 1.0 Editorial Team page. General background[edit] Article ratings assessment scheme In late 2003, Jimmy Wales had proposed making an offline release version of Wikipedia. This group was formed in late 2004 to meet this challenge. Our work involves identifying and organizing articles, and improving and maintaining a core set. Our work does not hinder the existing wiki process for creating and editing articles, but rather it supports that work by providing additional organization. We aim to produce collections that can be used in places where the internet coverage is expensive or non-existent. Our early collections were distributed via DVD; now these are shared via download, then distributed on hardware such as a Raspberry Pi. Originally, only a fixed selection was available, but there is now much flexibility in how selections can be made. This project is now mainly one point in a network of groups who collect and distribute open educational resources from the Internet in an offline form. See these more detailed related articles: Guide to Wikipedia Release Version tools Wikipedia 1.0 FAQs Wikipedia 1.0 Release Version Criteria Broad overview of Wikimedia's Offline Project How you can help[edit] Main page: Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/To do You are encouraged to join us and help out with one of the projects, or to discuss Wikipedia 1.0 on the talk page. A significant part of our work centers around maintaining the assessment scheme, which is now used on more than seven million articles by over 1000 active WikiProjects on the English Wikipedia. It is also being used on other language projects. Generally work on this team is sporadic – periods of hectic activity followed by long periods of waiting! Often work is long and tedious – checking through a list of 22,000 instances of profanities one by one, organizing 10,000 keywords taken from category names, or dealing with technical bugs when the assessment bot fails for no apparent reason. However, it is all worth it in the end. Our strategy has been intensely debated, but the group has reached a consensus. We elected not to follow the German model. Instead we chose to start with a core of quality articles on key subjects and expand from there. We have produced three test versions: Version 0.5, Version 0.7, and Version 0.8 with the goal of releasing better collections of articles in due course. The next general release is generically referred to as "Release Version" while our first "official" comprehensive release will be called Version 1.0. These collections are then made available for offline use using a reader such as Kiwix, which was chosen as Sourceforge project of the month. The project was on hiatus for several years because of the loss of our main developer. However, as of February 2016, a new group of developers has begun work on upgrading the code and the process, in order to start producing new collections again, especially collections for schools. Current needs[edit] Although we have much of the requisite system automated, there are still some outstanding tasks: Preparation of a reliable index. If you can write code and you're interested in how to map category trees into a useful index (not as easy as it sounds!) please contact Walkerma. Reviewing manual nominations. Whenever there is a new release being planned, we need volunteers to review a few articles and process them. Propose useful "guide" pages to be added, such as lists and disambiguation pages. Check for vandalism in the selected version-IDs of the articles. Develop nice pages for navigation through the content, such as subject portals. Test the reader software, and find and report bugs. Help with distribution, especially in remote areas without Internet access. Please let us know on the Talk page if you can help with any of these. A page read offline in Kiwix Status[edit] At present, the main activities are: The assessment scheme, which is used by WikiProjects for organizing their content, using talk page tags and the WP1.0 bot. The bot was updated with completely new Perl code in 2020–2021, and it is currently maintained by User:Audiodude. Technical problems with the bot should be reported here. Related to this work is the WP1.0 server (previously called "Release Version Tools) which provides ways for WikiProjects to analyze article lists and data relating to their work. Collaborations to produce offline collections are done in collaboration with various people from Kiwix and Internet-in-a-Box. Please contact Walkerma if you wish to help. To select articles, we are mainly using a bot-assisted selection process based on assessment by individual WikiProjects, where articles are selected automatically based on quality and importance project rankings. RevID selection[edit] Based on discussions (at the 2017 Potsdam hackathon and since), we plan to reactivate RevID selection. Previously code based on WikiTrust was used in Version 0.8, and this appeared to produce a largely vandalism-free collection of articles. This worked by scoring each RevID based on the edits remaining in it, and choosing the most "trustworthy" recent RevID based on the WikiTrust algorithm. Wikipedia 1.0 projects[edit] Active projects[edit] If you would like to start a new project, please discuss it on the talk page first before adding it here. Wikipedia 1.0 Projects Name Summary of overall strategy Coordinator Description of activities School selection Put together selections of 1–10 GB sizes for use in high schools and elementary schools User:Walkerma and others Uses new code that starts with a seed and works out, guided by the WP 1 selection ranking to guide it Work via WikiProjects (WVWP) Use "networking" to mobilise our existing subject specialists User:Walkerma Organise and facilitate compilation of article lists from the WikiProjects and seek to identify important topics within each WikiProject's area of expertise. Locate important topics that are currently not being managed by projects. In conjunction with WP:COUNCIL, the project serves as a link with the editing community, and may later help locate expert reviewers. Past releases[edit] Past Wikipedia 1.0 Projects Name Summary of overall strategy Month of release Description of activities Website Next release Version 0.5 A test release prior to release of Version 1.0 above. April 2007 A test release designed to pave the way for Version 1.0. Used manual nominations and approval based on importance and quality. Approval was by only one person, from the review team. Okawix Version 0.7 Version 0.7 A test release of automated article selections, prior to release of Version 1.0 above. Early 2010 A test release designed to pave the way for Version 1.0. Used SelectionBot to make an article selection based on importance and quality. Vandalism prevention used a script, with manual checks, which delayed the release significantly. [1] Kiwix reader, ZIM download Version 0.8 Version 0.8 A test release of automated article selections, prior to release of Version 1.0 above. March 2011 A test release designed to pave the way for Version 1.0. Version 0.8 used bot-assisted article selection, with manual adjustments based on feedback from WikiProjects. Used as a test of the WikiTrust revisionID selection code - this worked well. Wikipedia:Version 0.8/downloads. Version 0.9 2006 Wikipedia CD Selection (previously called "Test Version") Work with release version done off site that was coordinated by BozMo April 2006 2000 articles with content filtered/selected for use by children (see Wikipedia:Wikipedia CD Selection). No longer available - see 2008/9 release below 2007 Wikipedia CD Selection (below) 2007 Wikipedia CD Selection Work with release version done off site that was coordinated by BozMo May 2007 4655 articles with content filtered/selected for use by children (see Wikipedia:Wikipedia CD Selection). No longer available - see 2008/9 release below 2008/9 Wikipedia CD Selection (below) 2008/9 Wikipedia CD Selection Work with release version done off site that was coordinated by BozMo October 2008 5502 articles with content filtered/selected for use by children (see Wikipedia:Wikipedia CD Selection). http://schools-wikipedia.org Not yet known Inactive projects[edit] Inactive Wikipedia 1.0 Projects Name Summary of overall strategy Coordinator Description of activities Authoritative Editions Gives experts in each field the tools to review suitable articles in their area of expertise and give their okay to particular revisions. Sj, Jeff Keller, Gnp Allow editors to propose new groups; for example: "Featured Article review" or "American Physical Society peer review". Each blessing group would have a set of review guidelines. Each blessing group would consist of this set of guidelines, and a set of users who could bless a revision of an article as satisfying them. Articles with blessed revisions would display icons or links to last-blessed revisions. Featured Articles First reviewing older or problem FAs to ensure that quality is maintained, ready for inclusion of these articles in Wikipedia 1.0. (Now a standard part of the FA system) Geography project to produce a descriptive gazetteer of the world for publication. This could include an atlas, continents, countries and major cities. This would serve as a test bed for publishing Wikipedia 1.0, but could also be a valuable stand-alone product. Three Level Editing Users participate in a three part editing process to assure that pages are up to quality standards. The first level is just a general check, the second level is a factual check, and the third level is a last "just in case" check. This process would assure that articles would be up to standards without putting too much responsibility on one user. Biographies Improve and assess biographical articles Focus especially on the 200 Core Biographies, in conjunction with Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography. . Dynamic Pocket Cyclopedia Lists most important FAs, FLs, and GAs. An evolving list of no more than half of Wikipedia's most important featured articles, featured lists, and designated good articles. WikiSort Integrate the sifting process into the Wiki. Aims to use data from the planned user rating scheme to provide rankings of articles, such that important quality articles can be automatically identified for inclusion in Wikipedia 1.0. This project has been rendered obsolete by WikiProject-based assessments (see above). Article assessment To assess articles This project has been rendered obsolete by WikiProject-based assessments (see above). Publishing steps[edit] The process of generating an offline version of a sub-selection of Wikipedia article is multistage. It needs many dedicated and singled-purposed operations. The following chart show how the WP1 project envisioned things in 2010. The general process for producing an offline release Even if this chart is still, to a large extend, valid; we practice and envision things slightly differently nowadays. One of the most important paradigm change we had to make is to remove as much as possible human based manual activity because the amount of work is simply too high to be achieved in a reasonable amount of time. We tend now to automatize as much as possible the whole process. As a consequence the project is now predominantly focused on technology. Technical approach[edit] Support Wikiproject assessment effort[edit] The first software created to support the WP1 project has been the User:WP_1.0_bot. First written in Perl by User:CBM and then slighly modified and maintained by a few other volunteers. In 2020 the bot has been totally rewritten in Python following modern development standards (API, automated tests, etc.) by User:Audiodude. The code base is available en developed on Github. The WP1bot had and still have three traditional purposes: gather assessments (via categories introduced on main namespace articles talk pages), upload on Wikipedia logs & stats provide key information & tools to Wikiproject on a dedicated Web service. The data can also be accessed through an API at api.wp1.openzim.org Select article titles[edit] ... Select article revision[edit] ... Scrape selected articles for offline usage[edit] ... Orchestrate periodic and multiple scraping[edit] ... Publish and distribute offline snapshots[edit] ... Statistics[edit] The WP 1.0 bot tracks assessment data (article quality and importance data for individual WikiProjects) assigned via Talk page banners. If you would like to add a new WikiProject to the bot's list, please read the instructions at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Using the bot. The global summary table below is computed by taking the highest quality and importance rating for each assessed article in the main namespace. All rated articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low ??? Total FA 1,550 2,444 2,365 1,878 182 8,419 FL 171 633 732 673 109 2,318 A 354 680 782 577 83 2,476 GA 3,139 7,114 14,396 18,853 1,733 45,235 B 16,515 31,991 52,732 64,788 19,661 185,687 C 16,473 52,725 131,461 292,522 83,161 576,342 Start 18,482 91,515 410,328 1,563,317 394,372 2,478,014 Stub 4,233 31,559 278,026 2,766,050 760,420 3,840,288 List 4,715 16,661 52,637 185,547 66,013 325,573 Assessed 65,632 235,322 943,459 4,894,205 1,325,734 7,464,352 Unassessed 115 477 1,245 19,001 417,500 438,338 Total 65,747 235,799 944,704 4,913,206 1,743,234 7,902,690 About this table Related pages[edit] General[edit] Jimbo's proposal, Chicago Meetup - Jimbo's Oct 2004 ideas on how to get to 1.0. Wikipedia:Pushing to 1.0 Early discussion page for brainstorming ideas, before this team was created. meta:Wikipedia 1.0 meta:Static content group Assessment and validation[edit] Wikipedia:Article assessment meta:Article validation and Wikipedia:Pushing to validation - argue the benefit of article validation and possible implementations Wikipedia:Flagged revisions (similar to the older "stable versions") Wikipedia:Flagged revisions/Sighted versions Wikipedia:Flagged revisions/Quality versions Wikipedia:Flagged revisions/reliable revisions Wikipedia:Flagged revisions/Checkpoints and grading Demo version of flagged revisions Wikipedia:Footnotes Wikipedia:Peer review Wikipedia:Request for comment Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check Wikipedia books[edit] Wikipedia:Books & meta:WikiReader - Wikipedia books are collections of articles from Wikipedia on a certain topic, in the form of PDFs published for download and intended to be printed, and also to be sold in printed form. The Book Tool, and Wiki to print, a collaboration between the Foundation and OSI/PediaPress. Article selections[edit] Wikipedia:Vital articles Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles - Filling the gaps. Wikipedia:Good articles Featured Articles Wikipedia:Featured article candidates Wikipedia:Featured articles Wikipedia:What is a featured article Wikipedia:Featured article removal candidates Wikipedia:Stable versions See also[edit] List of online encyclopedias - compare Wikipedia with other projects vteWikipedia communityFor a listing of current collaborations, tasks, and news, see the Community portal.For a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests, see the Dashboard.General communitytopics Administration News The Signpost Goings-on In the media Meetups Mailing lists Wikipedians Statistics The Wikipedia Library Centralized discussion Village pump Idea lab Policy Proposals Technical Miscellaneous WMF Holidays Bots Contents and grading Requested articles Most-wanted articles Images needing articles Articles needing images Articles for creation WP:AFC/R Creation Help Vital articles Articles for improvement Peer review Good article nominations Featured article candidates Lists Pictures Topics Article translation Pages Main Page Errors WikiProjectsand collaborations Directory Culture and the arts Geographical History and society Science, technology and engineering Wikipedia assistance and tasks Patrols Recent changes Counter-Vandalism Unit Version 1.0 Editorial Team Accessibility Organizations category Awards and feedback Reward board Contests A nice cup of tea and a sit down Charitableness WikiLove Compliment before criticism Kindness Campaign Thanks! Maintenance tasks Task Center Open tasks Backlog Category Admin category Edit requests Category Database reports Category tracker Dusty articles Special pages New pages Recent changes Controversial issues Administratorsand noticeboards Administrators' noticeboard Incidents Edit warring Vandalism Admin dashboard Admin requests Closure Page protection User permissions Sockpuppets Open proxies Revision deletion Oversight Request Usernames Changing Title blacklist OTRS Bureaucrats' Requests for adminship and bureaucratship Arbitration Committee Requests Enforcement Content disputeresolution Requests for comment Third opinion Dispute resolution noticeboard Biographies of living persons Conflict of interest External links Fringe theories Neutral point of view No original research Reliable sources Other noticeboardsand assistance Regional notice boards Requests for help Category Asking questions Teahouse Help desk Reference desk Adopt-a-user Copyright assistance Copyright investigations Text problems Media questions Resource requests Mergers History mergers Moves Page importation Spam Blacklist Whitelist Bots Education General sanctions Editor sanctions Long-term abuse Deletiondiscussions Guide Admin Today Articles Templates Files Categories Redirects Miscellany Speedy Proposed BLP Review Undeletion Arguments to avoid Arguments to make Article Rescue Elections and votings Requests for comment (meta) Wikimedia Foundation elections WP Democracy Voting is not evil Milestones Directories, indexes,and summaries Departments Edit summary legend Editor's index Essays FAQs Glossary Abbreviations Help Manual of Style Simplified Rules Five pillars Policies Guidelines Shortcuts Templates Citation templates Tips Today Tools Wiki markup Media Category Templates
1 A wood-cutter lived with his wife and two children. They had very little food.  His wife told the woodcutter to take the children to the forest and leave them there.
2 The children heard her. Hansel crept outside. The moon shone brightly, and pebbles glittered like silver. Hansel stuffed his pocket full and went back to bed.  The next morning the woman told the children to follow them. As they walked, Hansel dropped the pebbles.
3 When they stopped, the father said, “Rest, we will be back.”
4 The children fell asleep and woke after dark. Hansel said, “When the moon has risen, we will find the way.” 
5 They followed the pebbles and found the house. When the woman saw them, she was angry, but their father rejoiced.
6 The woman said they must go again. The children heard her. Hansel went to pick up pebbles, but he could not because the door was locked.
7 The woman woke them and gave them a piece of bread.  As they walked, Hansel dropped bits of his bread.  They stopped and the woman told them to rest and went away.  Hansel said to Gretel, “We shall see the crumbs of bread I dropped.” But, that night, they could not find their way back as the birds had eaten the crumbs. They walked all night but were lost. 
8 For days they walked. Finally, they saw a house of bread and cakes. They began to eat, and a woman came out. The woman said, “Come stay with me.” She led them into her house and fed them.
9 The woman was a witch.  As the children slept, she carried Hansel into a stable and locked the door. She went to Gretel and cried, “Cook for your brother. When he is fat, I will eat him.” Gretel was forced to do what the witch commanded.
10 Every morning the woman said, “Stretch out your finger that I may feel if you are fat.” Hansel stretched out a little bone towards her because she could not see. She was surprised that he was so thin. Finally, she impatiently said, “Tomorrow I will cook him.”
11 The next morning the woman said, “I have already heated the oven. Creep in and see if it is properly heated.” Gretel said, “I do not know how to get in.” The woman said, “Look, I can get in!” and she put her head into the oven. Gretel pushed her inside and shut the door.
12 “Hansel, we are saved! The old witch is dead!” said Gretel.

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Word Lists:

Glitter : shine with a bright, shimmering reflected light

Heat : the quality of being hot; high temperature

Drop : let or make (something) fall vertically

Rejoice : feel or show great joy or delight

Impatient : having or showing a tendency to be quickly irritated or provoked

Stable : (of an object or structure) not likely to give way or overturn; firmly fixed

Creep : move slowly and carefully in order to avoid being heard or noticed

Thin : having opposite surfaces or sides close together; of little thickness or depth

Final : coming at the end of a series

Angry : feeling or showing strong annoyance, displeasure, or hostility; full of anger

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Rating: A Words in the Passage: 447 Unique Words: 174 Sentences: 50
Noun: 131 Conjunction: 36 Adverb: 23 Interjection: 3
Adjective: 16 Pronoun: 53 Verb: 102 Preposition: 29
Letter Count: 1,846 Sentiment: Positive Tone: Conversational Difficult Words: 46
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