Hello!
I recently made a "book" via the PediaPress Book Creator[1] prior to my
trip to India, and it has been delightful to use and read on the flight and
in my hotel room here. It had been awhile since I tried to make one, and I
wanted to say great work and good job to PediaPress! Also, the integration
with Kiwix was wonderful, and I love that it now shows up so seamlessly in
my "Library" within Kiwix.
I am not sure if you are aware, but in the recent Readership survey of
Wikipedia readers (from Sept 2011, which is only just now being analyzed),
the *number one request by readers was saving of articles for offline use
(as a PDF): *40% of readers said they would be MORE LIKELY to use Wikipedia
if such a service was available (note: this % is even higher in target
areas like India (50%) and Brazil (52%).* *This is fascinating, for it
shows that we (a) have a broader desire for offline content than just those
without Internet access, and (b) indicates there is great opportunity for
marketing the "Book Creator" tool.
*
*
I want to discuss the points needed to get to (b). The Book Creator tool is
great, and I think is the exact right type of tool to meet the needs of our
readers; but there is much room for improvements. Right now, I personally
find the experience getting to and from the Book Creator tool to be not as
straight forward as would be most beneficial. As this service has such a
huge demand, I think there are some opportunities for the refining of the
"book creator" tool and process. I'd love thoughts on the following and
more:
- *Rebranding: *What are our thoughts on the title "Book Creator"? I
wonder if the title itself is a bit confusing, since people are apparently
unaware of the ability to download as PDF at all! Plus, I personally don't
utilize the tools as a means for creating an actual book, though I
recognize this was the initial purpose: I view it as a way to read a couple
specific articles offline. I think using the word "collection," which we do
informally anyway, is likely more appropriate here. Perhaps "Offline
Collection Creator" or "Article Aggregator" (both terrible ideas, I know,
but I'm just throwing things out there:))
- *Website placement: *I think it is obvious the space the Book Creator
takes on the Left Hand tool bar is not enough to draw attention to the
feature. I wonder if we should attempt to have some sort of a "Save for
Offline Use" button on each article, which would then open a new window
into the collection creator screen? This could look similar to the "Share
this" links which exist on most information websites (for Facebook,
Twitter, email, etc.). This could be next to the "Print" button.
- *Marketing: *Once we feel a bit more confident about usability, it
would be great to market the tool. We can do this in three phases:
- Phase 1: emails to different mailing lists announcing the project,
and asking for suggestions and feedback on the tools
- Phase 2: "pilot" testing of the tool, with banner advertising to
logged-in users
- Phase 3: advertise this functionality via a banner at the top of
Wikipedia!
- *Measurement*: clearly, we should have careful tracking of *books
created* and *downloads by file type* by day. @PediaPress: is this
available yet?
I have some other ideas as well, but wanted to throw these out there for
some immediate reactions. What are people's thoughts? Any other ideas?
Anyone good with website design who could help with rearranging of the
"Book Creator"?? :)
Looking forward to the discussion (which should be moved onto a wiki soon) -
Jessie
[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&bookcmd=book_creator…
Dear all,
thanks to the WMF ops team who helped us consolidating the offline lists:
dev-l(a)openzim.org, a low-volume list of openZIM developers has been
merged with offline-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, a low-volume list of general
offline-related talk of Wikimedia.
Most announcements have been cross-posted between both lists anyway in
the past. The list archives have been merged as well and can be found
here now:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/offline-l/
While openZIM started as a stand-alone project run by enthusiastic
Wikimedians it became an integral part of the Wikimedia Offline projects
in the meantime. This merge is another step in focusing efforts and
build a common infrastructure.
Regards,
Manuel
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Regards
Manuel Schneider
Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge
www.wikimedia.ch
Dear all,
thanks to the WMF ops team who helped us consolidating the offline lists:
dev-l(a)openzim.org, a low-volume list of openZIM developers has been
merged with offline-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, a low-volume list of general
offline-related talk of Wikimedia.
Most announcements have been cross-posted between both lists anyway in
the past. The list archives have been merged as well and can be found
here now:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/offline-l/
While openZIM started as a stand-alone project run by enthusiastic
Wikimedians it became an integral part of the Wikimedia Offline projects
in the meantime. This merge is another step in focusing efforts and
build a common infrastructure.
Regards,
Manuel
--
Regards
Manuel Schneider
Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge
www.wikimedia.ch
Hello everyone!
There was a Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon[1] that happened a few days ago in Chennai. One of the projects that one of the volunteers took on was getting qvido[2] (a super light weight offline zim reader built for embedded devices) to build and run properly. He managed to do so, and the code (along with build instructions) can be found here: https://github.com/feroze/qvido
Suggestions on taking this further? I'm cc'ing the awesome volunteer (feroze) involved in the hack.
Thanks!
[1]: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Chennai_Hackathon_March_2012
[2]: http://projects.qi-hardware.com/index.php/p/qvido/
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Yuvi Panda
http://yuvi.in
Hi All,
This is Shahid from India.
I need help regarding the offline wikipedia. I would like to put
offline wikipedia on Android tablets.
Can anyone of you help me in this regard????
Thanks & Regards
Shahid
Hey everyone!
FYI, I'm speaking about Offline Wikipedia for Open Education Week today[1]
Thanks to Abbas for helping make the connection. Sorry for the late notice
- it just got scheduled!
Jessie
[1]
http://openeducationweek2012.sched.org/event/b0a2ebfcd2bbb2adfea74f4fda0a48…
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*Jessie Wild
Global Development, Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
*
Hello,
If I can re-open this thread, I am very interested in moving towards a
read-write offline platform. After helpful feedback from people in this
community, I have decided to start two wikis in the hope of a collaborative
implementation, (content transcluded below)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Offline_Editorshiphttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Offline/Wiki
==============
Motivation
Offline reader software packages lack the ability to edit. The wiki concept should not be abandoned even in this seemingly marginal use case. Collaboration becomes possible from any remote situation, really interesting applications include a small community's school contributing back to Wikipedia, or scientists who use a wiki to coordinate their work.
Strategies
Note that these approache are exclusive.
* Browser-based editing saves to an HTML5 cache
* Alternative to mediawiki page rendering
* Edit mode for Kiwix
=========
Forwarding this information about ZIM reader Kiwix, which is the reader
commonly used for the Offline Wikipedia projects.
Many of you on these lists I know have connections to both OLPC and/or
Offline Wikipedia, so I thought that you might at a minimum interested in
the update and hopefully also interested in helping test!
Best wishes to all -
Jessie
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From: Emmanuel Engelhart <emmanuel(a)engelhart.org>
Date: Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:17 AM
Subject: [Kiwix-testing] [KIWIX] New version of Kiwix for Sugar
To: "kiwix-testing(a)lists.sourceforge.net" <
kiwix-testing(a)lists.sourceforge.net>, olpc-france(a)lists.laptop.org
Dear testers,
we finally have fixed the big bug impacting loading of ZIM files with
0.8x versions of the OLPC OS. So, Kiwix should work now and be able to
load any ZIM file. No bug anymore concerning Kiwix on Sugar is still
open on our side.
Please test the last version and give us a feedback:
http://activities.sugarlabs.org/fr/sugar/addon/4483
Build your own small custom ZIM file there:
* https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A9cial:Livre
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Book
If everything still runs fine, we plan to introduce pre-packaged .xo
files (Kiwix+content) during the summer.
Regards
Emmanuel
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Dear list members,
I am pleased to announce the release of WP-MIRROR 0.3. This version
is now offered both as a traditional tarball, and now for the first
time as a .DEB package. The web page has also been updated, with a
new section of Installation, which may be found at
<http://www.nongnu.org/wp-mirror/>. Feedback is welcome.
Sincerely Yours,
Dr. Kent L. Miller
Hi all,
WikiOnBoard 2 is now available in Nokia Store.
(http://store.ovi.com/content/148305)
Visit the wikionboard website (http://cip.github.com/WikiOnBoard) for screenshots.
New in WikiOnBoard 2
* Improved user interface
* New library view allows easy switching between different Wikipedia offline
versions stored on your phone
* Split-screen virtual keyboard in article search
* Forward in history added to article view
* Fix: On some mobile phones it was not possible to open a file. While this
apparently was a problem with the phone's configuration and not a bug in the
app, it should not occur anymore as file selection is implemented differently.
WikiOnBoard 2 only supports Symbian^3mobile phones, such as Nokia N8, C7, 500,
603 or 701.
For older mobile phones, such as Nokia 5233, WikiOnBoard 1 stays available in
Nokia Store.
Thank you for your support, which made this possible.
Best regards,
Christian
Am 20.07.2011 22:50, schrieb Christian Pühringer:
> Hi all,
>
> WikiOnBoard 1.0, the Qt-based zimfile reader for mobile phones, is now
> available in the Nokia Ovi Store for Symbian^3 (e.g. Nokia N8) and Symbian^1
> devices (e.g. Nokia 5800):
> http://store.ovi.com/content/148305
>
> For older Nokia devices WikiOnBoard can be downloaded from
> http://github.com/cip/WikiOnBoard, although I plan
> to release a version to Ovi Store as well.
>
> Thank you for your support, which made this possible.
>
> Best regards,
> Christian
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