Hey All.
Have started producing 128 Gb versions of Internet-in-a-Box. What they
contain is all of English Wikipedia (77 Gb, version from a month ago) plus
all of one of Arabic, Spanish, French, or Portuguese WP. French may or may
not include pictures. Cost of manufacturing is about 50 USD. Further
customization is possible after getting the device. Plan to gradually
increase production based on demand.
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James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
>From Dumi -- what offline social accounts and pages are there? Say for
individual projects?
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As you may know, we're about to pass a significant milestone in the
Wikimedia movement in the next two weeks: having 100 user groups.
To celebrate, we'd like to propose that each user group post a short
message on social media the day that the 100 user group milestone is
passed, with a unique fact about yourself and using the hashtag
*#100usergroups. *We will then amplify some of these messages into
the @wikimedia account. (We'll email again once the milestone has been
passed.)
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<tl;dr>: Read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors and
add your name to the mentors table and start tagging #GCI-2018 tasks.
We'll need MANY mentors and MANY tasks, otherwise we cannot make it.
Google Code-in is an annual contest for 13-17 year old students. It
will take place from Oct23 to Dec13. It's not only about coding:
we also need tasks about design, docs, outreach/research, QA.
Last year, 300 students worked on 760 tasks supported by 51 mentors.
For some achievements from last round, see
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/20/wikimedia-google-code-in-2017/
While we wait whether Wikimedia will get accepted:
* You have small, self-contained bugs you'd like to see fixed?
* Your documentation needs specific improvements?
* Your user interface has some smaller design issues?
* Your Outreachy/Summer of Code project welcomes small tweaks?
* You'd enjoy helping someone port your template to Lua?
* Your gadget code uses some deprecated API calls?
* You have tasks in mind that welcome some research?
Note that "beginner tasks" (e.g. "Set up Vagrant") and generic
tasks are very welcome (like "Choose and fix 2 PHP7 issues from
the list in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120336" style).
We also have more than 400 unassigned open #easy tasks listed:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/HCyOonSbFn.z/#R
Can you mentor some of those tasks in your area?
Please take a moment to find / update [Phabricator etc.] tasks in your
project(s) which would take an experienced contributor 2-3 hours. Read
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors
, ask if you have any questions, and add your name to
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/2018#List_of_Wikimedia_mentors
(If you have mentored before and have a good overview of our
infrastructure: We also need more organization admins! See
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Admins )
Thanks (as we cannot run this without your help),
andre
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Andre Klapper | ak-47(a)gmx.net
https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
Hi
Like most of you probably know, an intensive effort is currently led to
replace our oldest piece of software: Kiwix Desktop 0.9 for
Windows/MacOS/Linux. We will skip the version 1.0 because this is full
rewriting of the UI, using a new approach and a new UI design.
This time, we have decided to propose a MacOS version using Apple native
UI components and we have achieve to make it :) It is now available on
iTunes http://macos.kiwix.org/. You can also download it from here
https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-desktop-macos/kiwix-desktop-macos_….
This version for MacOS does not offer all the features which were
available in 0.9 but is a lot more stable and works fine so far we know.
It is also really easy to install thanks to the availability on iTunes.
More advanced features (in particular the content management) will come
back later in 2019. Please report any problem to
https://github.com/kiwix/apple/issues.
For Windows and Linux, we are almost at the same stage, we just have
published an alpha3 version here:
https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-desktop/. Like for MacOS, it is
still not full-featured, but our ambition is to release the 2.0 for end
of October with the content manager included. Please give it a try and
share your feedback here: https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-desktop/issues.
I'll keep you inform in the next weeks about further test releases.
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