Hello!
The New Readers team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been offered volunteer
development by a student group from UC Berkeley, called Diversatech.
They'll complete this work within their semester (ending in December).
Given results from the research into offline support in the Wikipedia
Android app
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Offline_support/V1_User_resea…>
(which I shared recently on this list) and the many requests from this
group, they're going to develop a prototype for consideration around what a
tool might look like that allows content curators for offline files to
develop a list of articles.
I'd love your feedback for what considerations they should take into play
as they're looking at this. Remember that this work is exploratory and the
scope will end up being smaller than what I imagine we all would like from
a tool like this :)
If you're interested, you can out my quick pass at requirements, and add
requirements there or other thoughts to the talk page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Offline/Content_curation
If we decide to invest further in something like this, we will be sure to
run a fuller consultation as well. I'm also going to encourage them to keep
their progress updated on that page, but can't guarantee that that'll
happen given the short timeline and exploratory nature of the work.
Thanks,
Anne
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Hey offliners,
In case you're interested, the Foundation will be working to replace OCG
over the coming months. I wanted to make sure you're aware in case you rely
on any of this infrastructure and/or have plans for further development
dependent on it.
What this means in the short term is that PDF book rendering (through Book
Creator) will be shut off for a few months at least while a suitable
replacement is researched, tested, and built.
Here's the full write up:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality
Let me know if you have any questions or if this has major impact to your
work.
Cheers,
Anne
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*Anne Gomez* // Senior Program Manager, New Readers
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers>
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
*Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Donate
<http://donate.wikimedia.org>. *
Hi
The whole Kiwix team is proud to announce the first release of Kiwix JS
for Windows (mobile) devices. It is available in the Microsoft app
store: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/store/p/kiwix-js/9p8slz4j979j
Kiwix JS for Windows runs on all recent Windows OSes but is in
particular thought for Windows Mobile and all Windows based mobile users
for whom we had so far no solution.
The app has been developed in the last 6 months based on the Kiwix JS
code base already used in Kiwix Firefox and Chrome Web extensions. It is
not fully featured like Kiwix for Android or iOS and is a bit slower...
but it is still really easy to use and can read all ZIM files.
We really hope it will find its public and that we will be supported
with feedbacks.
Regards
Emmanuel
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Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more
* Web: http://www.kiwix.org
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline
* more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication
Hi
Kiwix ist a free software project aiming to provide access to free
knowledge to people without access to Internet. It is supported by the
Wikimedia movement, of Wikipedia fame.
Kiwix is a 10 years old software suite developed to give access to Web
content to people with no Internet access. It works a bit like a digital
offline library.
Its older piece, Kiwix desktop, is a classic desktop application for
Windows and Linux which reads data files with the extension *.zim. It
displays the content like a Web browser would do.
Based on the deprecated Xulrunner framework of Mozilla, Kiwix desktop
has now reached it end of lifecycle and also urgently needs a full
revamping of its user interface, using the Qt windowing library.
As far as features go, the new version of kiwix-desktop should more or
less offer the same functionalities as the older version:
* Portable on Windows/Linux
* Internationalization and localization support
* Remote and local library management
* Loading, displaying an searching in the ZIM files
* Tabulations
* Bookmarking/reading list
Most of the application’s “core” already exists as a software library
called Kiwix library. Most of the work is about binding it with a new –
and yet to be created – user interface.
You would work in close collaboration with a UX expert/UI designer and
with the C++ developer of the core library kiwix-lib. This work is part
of a more global effort to improve the Kiwix software as a whole.
You are a developer committed to (or at least familiar with) open source
software, and familiar with GNU/Linux. You already have a small working
experience with Qt and C++ (on personal projects for example). Ideally
you will to share, explain, and demonstrate a past project (for example
on Github).
This internship is paid ~1000€/month and takes place in Lyon, France.
The work will be organised and framed by an experienced developer
familiar with the project.
Candidates interested by this internship should send an email (cover
letter and CV) to Matthieu Gautier (mgautier at kymeria.fr).
Here is the online version of this open position:
http://www.kiwix.org/internship-c-qt-6-months/
Regards
Emmanuel
--
Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more
* Web: http://www.kiwix.org
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline
* more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication
Hi
Kiwix is a 10 years old software suite developed to give access to Web
content to people with no Internet access. It works a bit like a digital
offline library.
Its older piece, Kiwix desktop, is a classic desktop application for
Windows and Linux which reads data files with the extension *.zim. It
displays the content like a Web browser would do.
Based on the deprecated Xulrunner framework of Mozilla, Kiwix desktop
has now reached it end of lifecycle and also urgently needs a full
revamping of its user interface, using the Qt windowing library.
As far as features go, the new version of kiwix-desktop should more or
less offer the same functionalities as the older version:
* Portable on Windows/Linux
* Internationalization and localization support
* Remote and local library management
* Loading, displaying an searching in the ZIM files
* Tabulations
* Bookmarking/reading list
Most of the application’s “core” already exists as a software library
called Kiwix library. Most of the work is about binding it with a new –
and yet to be created – user interface.
You would work in close collaboration with a UX expert/UI designer and
with the C++ developer of the core library kiwix-lib. This work is part
of a more global effort to improve the Kiwix software as a whole.
You are a developer committed to (or at least familiar with) open source
software, and familiar with GNU/Linux. You already have a small working
experience with Qt and C++ (on personal projects for example). Ideally
you will to share, explain, and demonstrate a past project (for example
on Github).
This internship is paid ~1000€/month and takes place in Lyon, France.
The work will be organised and framed by an experienced developer
familiar with the project.
Candidates interested by this internship should send an email (cover
letter and CV) to Matthieu Gautier (mgautier at kymeria.fr).
Here is the online version of this open position:
http://www.kiwix.org/internship-c-qt-6-months/
Regards
Emmanuel
--
Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more
* Web: http://www.kiwix.org
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline
* more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication