(sorry for cross-posting, people, but such is life)
Wikimedia CH is looking for a HTML/Node.js/JavaScript/CSS contractor to help with Kiwix,
the offline Wikipedia reader
The Kiwix project (
http://code.kiwix.org/ <http://code.kiwix.org/>,
http://www.kiwix.org <http://www.kiwix.org/>) is an offline reader for web content.
Contents are stored into a local ZIM file that can be browsed later on.
Although Kiwix' main use is that of an offline Wikipedia reader, it also supports
other kinds of content (other Wikimedia projects, Stackoverflow, TED talks, etc.)
The ZIM archive we currently generate from Wikimedia dumps is not very mobile-friendly. We
need someone to modify the scrapper (
https://github.com/kiwix/mwoffliner
<https://github.com/kiwix/mwoffliner> in Node.js) so as subsequently to
improve/preprocess the html/css/js content.A list of task can be found here:
*
https://github.com/kiwix/mwoffliner <https://github.com/kiwix/mwoffliner>
*
https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix/labels/be-mobile
<https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix/labels/be-mobile>
This is a free (as in free speech) project, so a bit of experience with interacting with a
community would be a plus. But any one can join.
If you're interested, if you know anyone that could be interested, please send an
email to
Emmanuel Engelhart <emmanuel.engelhart(a)wikimedia.ch
<mailto:emmanuel.engelhart@wikimedia.ch>> and
Matthieu Gautier <mgautier(a)kymeria.fr <mailto:mgautier@kymeria.fr>>