Some trivial things

Some trivial things

I think some of the trivial things are :

What if we could implement offline contributing system..
Since the band width is expensive(most will be using limited internet connection plan) and , the Internet is not readily available ..everywhere .are there any offline wiki editing tools?..that should be simple enough ,that may help increase the no of editors(I mean the one that even could check the wiki syntax and so on ..)...else create awareness about that if such tools if available ...else why don't we think we can make it of our own ??
What if we could display top 10 contributors (user names) on the main page of each language?
that may result in more competetive editing trends I think
Distributed contribution ?
There can be so many very old books or collections whose copyrights are not clear and thought to be in the public domain(we can have a copy of them in Wikipedia or Wikibooks) ..some of the books may be in our attic , we can make a group so that they will be given some pages of the scanned copy of the book they will be typing it out(Text recognition is poorly supported for South Asian Languages)so we can finally construct a book ..may be good for Wikibooks ..but typing 100 pages may not be that easy for the single man ..Tom Swayer says "Work Can be Fun" if shared ...:)

Can these trivial matters be the part of our proposals ??

I would encourage you to make sure the offline task force knows about the offline suggestion above, and not worry about making that part of one of your 2-4 proposals. Same with the top 10 (that sounds like the reader conversion and/or quality task forces). I'd like to see your proposals solidly focused on India related things directly.

~Philippe (WMF)21:35, 30 November 2009