¶ Milestone I - The Urantia Book, the Bible and Topic Index
This milestone is explained in detail here: Milestone I.
¶ Products
The products of this milestone are:
Paramony
Topic index
The Urantia Book (with Paramony cross-references as footnotes)
The Bible (with Paramony cross-references as footnotes)
The Urantia Book audio version
illustrations for The Urantia Book, The Bible and the Topic index
¶ Tasks
In this phase the tasks to be carried out are:
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| Development of file converters to Wiki.js |  |
| Development of the Topic Index Editor, an assistant that allows to speed up the work with the Index of Terms |  |
| Translation of Paramony from English to the target language. |
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| Translation and review of Topic index from English to the target language. |
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| Obtain a public-domain translation of The Bible in the target language. |
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| Conversion The Urantia Book from HTML to JSON without Paramony footnotes. |
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| Addition of Paramony footnotes to The Urantia Book in JSON. |
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| Conversion of the Topic index from TXT to Wiki.js and commit changes using Urantiapedia-backup. |
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| Conversion of The Urantia Book from JSON with Paramony footnotes to Wiki.js including references to topics, and commit changes using Urantiapedia-backup. |
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| Conversion of The Bible from LaTeX to Wiki.js with Paramony footnotes, and commit changes using Urantiapedia-backup. |
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| Test text-to-speech solutions. The goal is to offer automated reading of all the books on the website, starting with The Urantia Book. In English there is an official Urantia Foundation audio book. For other languages, automated solutions will be sought. |
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| Create a catalog of images to illustrate The Urantia Book, the Bible and the Topic Index. It is currently done with part IV of The Urantia Book. |
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¶ Milestone II - Books, articles, study aids, schemas and indexes
This milestone is explained in detail here: Milestone II.
¶ Products
For each language the content expected in this milestone is:
- Books:
Extra-biblical books
Books from all world religions
Other books supposed to be sources
Books from readers
Articles from readers
Study aids from readers
Diagrams and schematics from readers
Indexes
¶ Tasks
In this phase the tasks to be carried out are:
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| Development for the conversion of books and articles to Wiki.js | |
| Import extra-biblical books from existing web pages to Urantiapedia, translate if required, and link to Urantia Book if possible |
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| Import books from all current world religions from existing web pages to Urantiapedia, translate if required, and link to Urantia Book if possible |
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| Scan or download other books about philosophy, theology and science that are supposed to be sources of The Urantia Book and import them to Urantiapedia, translating if needed, and linking to The Urantia Book using the works from Matthew Block and others |
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| Import books from readers (that has given permission for publishing in Urantiapedia) |
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| Import articles in publications, translate if needed, and link them to The Urantia Book |
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| Import study aids , translate if needed, and link them to The Urantia Book |
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| Import diagrams and schematics in a way that makes them responsive can be seen in small devices easily |
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| Create indexes with different criteria for fast search in the website |
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¶ Articles progress detailed
This is a detailed information on the progress with the addition of articles. Urantiapedia has been awarded with a grant by Urantia Foundation as part of the Mustard Seed Program. This grant includes resources for helping in the addition of articles in the languages specified below.
The table below is not completed. There are more websites that we are considering to add to Urantiapedia. This table will be updated as progress is made in following months.
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| The Urantia Foundation | ||||
| - News Online | 640 | |
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| - News Flash | 24 | |
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| - Urantian | 63 | |
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| - Fellowship Herald | 263 | |
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| - Mighty Messenger | 218 | |
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| - Study Group Herald | 129 | |
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| - The Urantian | 264 | |
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| - Journal | 216 | |
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| - Tidings | 389 | |
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| Innerface International | 568 | |
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| Spiritual Fellowship Journal | 400 | |
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| - Luz y Vida | 337 | |
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| - 6-0-6 | 257 | |
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| - The Arena | 108 | |
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| - CERDH - The Letter | 90 | |
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| - Le Lien | 500 | |
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| - Reflectivite | 401 | |
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| UB Annotated | 56 | |
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| Jan Herca articles | 71 | |
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| TOTAL | 4994 |
¶ Milestone III - Translator
This milestone is explained in detail here: Milestone III.
In this phase, developments will only be carried out in the applications, so it will be a phase in parallel to the others. The planned tasks are these:
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| Development in Urantiapedia Tools of a massive page translator | |
| Development in Wiki.js a new editor that allows assisted translations directly on the web | |
| Development in Wiki.js of a display mode for The Urantia Book and any other content in two to four languages | |
| Development in Wiki.js of a preference selector in the translation to use of The Urantia Book (for languages like Spanish with several) |
¶ Milestone IV - Interactive maps
This milestone is explained in detail here: Milestone IV.
This milestone include some developement that currently is not planned.
For each language the content expected in this milestone is:
Static maps
Interactive maps: For now one map has been created for testing.
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¶ Milestone V - Slides
This milestone is explained in detail here: Milestone V.
This milestone include some development that currently is not planned. It is also required to plan a list of presentations to include.
¶ Milestone VI - 3D Models
This milestone is explained in detail here: Milestone VI.
This milestone include some development that currently is not planned. It is also required to plan a list of 3D models to include.
¶ Planned tasks
This is the list of all the tasks we have considered to date for each type of content. If you are a contributor or want to become one, check this list frequently to see where you can make your best contributions.
| Icon Content | Tasks |
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| The Urantia Book |
Review of automatic translation made for Paramony footnotes except es and en. |
| Audio |
Test best suitable text-to-speech solutions: all languages. Generation of audio of The Urantia Book: currently available in en and in process with es. |
| Images |
Create an image catalog for illustrating The Urantia Book, the Bible and the Topic Index. Currently is done with part IV of Urantia Book. |
| The Topic Index |
Produce the first version for en and es. This is a heavy task that has been divided by letters of the alphabet. Letters A to G are already finished and remain letters H to Z.Automatic translation of Topic Index: it is not recommended to start this tasks until previous is completed because some automatic process will help here. Review of previous translation: as above it is not recommended to start this task until produce first version for en and es. |
| The Bible |
Review of automatic translation of Paramony footnotes: all languages except en and es. |
| Extra-Biblical books |
Obtain public domain Extra-Biblical books : all languages. |
| Other books |
Obtain books supposed sources (downloading from web or scanning): books are usually in en.Automatic translation of previous books: all languages apart from en.Review of previous translation: all languages apart from en. |
| Articles |
Addition of articles in en and set style.Automatic translation of articles: all languages apart from en.Review of previous translation: all languages apart from en. |
| Study aids |
Plan a list of study aids to include and create one for testing. |
| Diagrams |
Plan a list of diagrams to include and create one for testing. |
| Indexes |
Plan a list of indexes to include. |
| Static maps |
Plan a list of static maps (images) to include and create one for testing |
| Interactive maps |
Create a geodatabase and QGIS projects for auto generation of maps Test exporting maps to SVG, HTML image maps, and KML (this requires a map platform as Google My Maps or our own) Automatic translation of texts in maps: all languages. |
 Slides |
Plan a list of presentations to include and create one for testing using Google Drive. |
 3D models |
Plan a list of 3D scenes to include and create one for testing using Sketchfab. |
 Video |
Create a extended introduction to Urantiapedia (Youtube channel). Create an advanced tutorial for Urantiapedia contributors (Youtube channel). |
¶ Summary
The next table summarizes all the progress with each type of content (1):
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(1) Urantia Book and Bible with the Paramony included.
¶ External links
- Urantiapedia Tools - GitHub project
- Urantiapedia-backup - GitHub project
- Urantia Foundation
- Blue Fields
- Wiki.js