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Scholarships Available to attend WikiConference India 2011 in Mumbai, India‏
by Pranav Curumsey 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

**Please Cross Post this on your Country List. This has been Cross Posted on various mailing lists so apologies if you have received it more than once** Hiya, We are please to announce that WMF has granted a few scholarships (maximum of 5) for persons outside of India to attend WikiConference India 2011 (WCI 2011 - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011 ). WCI 2011 will take place in Mumbai, India between 18-20 November 2011. WCI 2011 is the first conference of its kind being held in India and is intended to become an annual national flagship event for Wikipedia/Wikimedia in the country. It is meant to provide a common platform for all Indian Wikimedians to meet and share their views, discuss challenges and exchange useful tips, best practices and other information. Anyone residing outside of India is eligible to apply, but since this is an India specific conference they would need to demonstrate how by being present at the conference they can help the movement in India or improvement of indic languages. It is also necessary that those receiving the scholarship present something at WCI 2011. The scholarships will cover Travel to and Fro Mumbai (economy), Accommodation (similar to what is being offered to Indian Scholars) and Visa fees (if you need one). Please do make your application as strong as possible given that there are few scholarships and we expect a huge number of applications: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011/Call_for_Participa… Kindly note given that there is less than a month to go and that Visa applications etc. will take time, we have set an application deadline of 23:59 IST on Saturday 22nd October 2011. Only applications received before the deadline will be considered. Looking forward to hosting five of you at WCI 2011! -- Kind Regards, Pranav Curumsey Chairperson - Organising Committee WikiConference India 2011

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Re: [openZIM dev-l] [Wikitech-l] Phonegap and Wikimedia mobile apps
by Emmanuel Engelhart 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

On 24/09/2011 14:24, Christian Pühringer wrote: > The JAVA liblzma performance is pretty bad: To increase efficiency of > compression in the zim-format articles (and also all > other data like images) are stored in clusters. Cluster size is apparently about > 1 MB. This implies that loading an article > which is stored at the end of a cluster involves decompressing the complete > cluster. Images should not be compressed in ZIM files for the obvious reasons they mainly are already compressed. This is the case for all ZIM files I made. As far as I know this is also the case for Mediawiki:Collection build ZIM files. Emmanuel

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Kiwix 0.9 beta3 is out!
by Emmanuel Engelhart 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

Hi Almost two months after the beta2, we finally released the 0.9 beta3. This version fixes many bugs and improves the overall usability ; we especially fixed two critical bugs impacting Windows, finished the file association (special icons for ZIM files) on Linux and Windows. Noticeable is also the new 50 UI supported languages thank to the big work done by the Translatewiki community of translators. You may find the detailed CHANGELOG here: http://changelog.kiwix.org At the same time, thank to the financial project of Wikimedia CH: * A first version for Sugar (used by OLPC XO) was prepared. We still need feedback to detect and fix last issues: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4483 * A static version of Kiwix for GNU/Linux x86_32. We also need your feedbacks here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kiwix/files/kiwix-0.9-beta3-linux.tar.bz2/d… ... More information about the "Black&White" project: http://www.kiwix.org/index.php/Black%26White_Project Next release is planned for the middle of November and should still include usability improvements thank to the continuous support of the WMF. We want to finally release 0.9 before the end of the year, so this will certainly be also the first release candidate (so no new feature inclusion any more). Follow us: http://identi.ca/group/kiwix Regards Emmanuel

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Blender's new MedaiWiki skin - Naiad
by Erik Moeller 02 Oct '11

02 Oct '11

In case you haven't seen it, there are some interesting ideas in the new skin developed by the Blender community for its wiki: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Skins/Naiad It was clearly designed especially to support structured documentation: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.5/Manual Among the more interesting ideas employed here are automatic changes to the layout to make the best use of the available screen resolution. Cheers, Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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