Talk:WikimediaKiosk

Current setup and Raspberry Pi

In case you're wondering.

I tried for about a day to make this work well on a Raspberry Pi. The CPU just couldn't handle some of the cooler visualization pages out there. (even using the new accelerated graphics in late 2014)

It's currently running on a Mac Mini. This is probably overkill, but it will let us turn the system in to a video conferencing station in a bind. (considering using it to stream Wikimania, etc.) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JKrauska (WMF) (talk) 01:23, 8 November 2014‎ (UTC)

UPDATE: The new quad core Raspberry Pis are awesome sauce, but still a little laggy. I've been experimenting with 'Ken Burns' style javascript image viewers and while most of the more static pages would render fine on the quad pi, the canvas sliders didn't work out.

So how do you run it / button to launch in conference rooms.

The kiosk is great. When visitors are waiting in a conference room, e.g. between interviewers, we should run it. Can it be an icon on the A/V computers? -- SPage (WMF) (talk) 23:03, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Right now, we can't run it in a conference room without it taking over the machine. It's being run as a cron that takes up full screen. I think we'd need to rethink it to have it run like a screen saver. You are welcome to submit some code. JKrauska (WMF) (talk) 18:24, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Software

Is the software that is running the kiosk available for other people to use too? Ainali (talk) 07:43, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

It's really just a hacky script, but I put it up here for anyone interested. JKrauska (WMF) (talk) 18:25, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Feedback

If you have feedback about this project, it's usually better to email techsupport@wikimedia.org with questions/requests. We will try to respond to the Talk pages, but the kiosk is a pretty low priority project.

Thank you, Joel! --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 12:43, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Is this project still alive?

It is linked from places like mw:API:Web_APIs_hub but it's hard to grasp what this is about even. Or where its codebase is. Maybe https://github.com/WikimediaOIT/wikiosk is related? --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 13:07, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

This is about the monitor that's currently at the entrance of the SF office, and maintained by User:BCampbell (WMF) AFAIK. --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 13:11, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Oh, I see, thanks! I got very confused by that dump of "planned improvements" (from 2015 maybe?), partially outdated URLs (are the URLs really parsed from this page?), and I am currently tempted to remove this from (also very outdated) mw:API:Web_APIs_hub. --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 13:16, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

(are the URLs really parsed from this page?

Yes — not 'live', but at configure time.

[Note this is my recollection from the last time I fiddled with the system, which was years ago.] Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 15:39, 23 November 2021 (UTC)