Hello all,
I am Nicolas Raoul, 10 years of wikipedia editing. I just released this non-official Android app for Wikivoyage offline: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.github.OxygenGuide Free, open source, of course.
It serves a different purpose than the existing official Wikivoyage app. It lets people read Wikivoyage even when offline. Like a paper guidebook, but stored in your phone.
At first run, it downloads OxygenGuide (a ZIP of all Wikivoyage text, 80MB). Then you can enjoy the articles offline. Bonus: Offline is much faster, because data is loaded from the SD card, not from the Internet.
Offline is vital for travellers, because roaming is expensive. Wikimedia's official app is great, but not offline, making it no-go for most travellers... there is a "Save page" feature, but it is difficult to know in advance every place and topic a travel you lead you to. Imagine selecting and cutting pages from a paper guidebook one-by-one... rather take the whole book if it is not heavy, right? Special:Book generates monolithic A4-sized EPUB files with images, too heavy for a phone if you select more than a few articles.
The app is functional, but ugly and many features could be added. If anyone is interested, you're very welcome to join the team :-) If Wikimedia wants to overtake the app, I would be flattered! If not, I just continue as non-official, no worry. If I violate any trademark or license, please let me know. Also, any feedback is very welcome!
By the way, non-Android users can also copy the HTML articles manually to their phone/reader/laptop: https://code.google.com/p/oxygenguide
Cheers! Nicolas Raoul http://nrw.free.fr
PS: Sorry for not writing as a reply in Chris' thread, I had not subscribed yet when he posted. And sorry for kind of cross-posting with wikivoyage-l.
On 01/25/2013 08:09 AM, Nicolas Raoul wrote:
Hello all,
I am Nicolas Raoul, 10 years of wikipedia editing. I just released this non-official Android app for Wikivoyage offline: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.github.OxygenGuide Free, open source, of course.
Very interesting! Thank you for your contribution.
Have you promoted it in social media channels? If so we are happy to RT/share from our handlers - see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Social_media
We will promote at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/News as soon as you reply.
Hello Quim,
There are 500 downloads now, mostly from the Netherlands. US is only 6% of the downloads, somehow.
I began promoting the app in 3 social channels: - https://twitter.com/OxygenGuide - https://www.facebook.com/WikivoyageOffline - https://plus.google.com/104956173840552710383
It would be great if you could reshare :-) The most convenient might be to link to the Google Store page, which allows installation in one click: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.github.OxygenGuide
I got the app approved on F-Droid, a repository of Open Source apps, which certifies it is really open source and functional: http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.github.OxygenGuide
I also mentioned the app briefly when writing a story about Wikivoyage that got published in the French equivalent of Slashdot: http://linuxfr.org/news/wikivoyage-lance-officiellement
Cheers! Nicolas Raoul
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 01/25/2013 08:09 AM, Nicolas Raoul wrote:
Hello all,
I am Nicolas Raoul, 10 years of wikipedia editing. I just released this non-official Android app for Wikivoyage offline: https://play.google.com/store/**apps/details?id=org.github.**OxygenGuidehttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.github.OxygenGuide Free, open source, of course.
Very interesting! Thank you for your contribution.
Have you promoted it in social media channels? If so we are happy to RT/share from our handlers - see https://www.mediawiki.org/** wiki/Social_media https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Social_media
We will promote at https://www.mediawiki.org/**wiki/Newshttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsas soon as you reply.
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On 01/25/2013 09:48 PM, Nicolas Raoul wrote:
Hello Quim,
There are 500 downloads now, mostly from the Netherlands. US is only 6% of the downloads, somehow.
I began promoting the app in 3 social channels:
- https://twitter.com/OxygenGuide
- https://www.facebook.com/WikivoyageOffline
- https://plus.google.com/104956173840552710383
It would be great if you could reshare :-)
Done, also at https://www.mediawiki.org/ homepage.