Hello!
The New Readers team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been digging into how
Wikimedia content is used offline globally and wanted to share with this
list.
We've gathered what we know of what's out there (though surely there are
more) and examined how the different solutions fit together and how they
serve user needs for offline content. In the meantime, we're also
developing use cases for the different products, types of content, and
features. We plan to combine these analyses together to inform our future
work and will share as we go.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Offline_Industry.pdf
We know there's loads more to learn - so please share if you have thoughts,
critiques, or additions. I'll keep an eye on this thread or you can find us
on meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers
Thanks,
Anne
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This is a use case worth covering for any CMS, in my opinion. Currently
when one doesn't want to maintain a CMS any longer I'm forced to tell
them to crawl with wget-warc/wpull (possibly via ArchiveTeam), submit to
Internet Archive and then somehow redirect users. Few CMS seem to care
about it though.
In practice the only "official" solutions we have are:
* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DumpHTML + any webserver
* http://www.kiwix.org/ + kiwix-serve (mwoffliner via Parsoid)
From https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T17017 and
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93396#1136904 , it seems WMF has no
interest in providing a static HTML format which is directly usable.
Nemo
Hi
We just have released a new version of Kiwix for iOS.
Here the list of improvements:
* NEW: Library has a new look
* NEW: Support zim files with build in index
* NEW: Performance optimization
* FIX: Download of big content on WIFI
The app is available on iTunes at http://ios.kiwix.org.
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
Hi
We just have released a new version of Kiwix for Android.
Here the list of improvements:
* FIX: Text To Speech issues on earlier Android versions
* FIX: SD card detection in a few edge cases
* FIX: Sporadic transparent menu
* FIX: Download resilience and experience
* FIX: Few problems with icon positions
* FIX: "Night mode" for pictures
* NEW: UI "night mode"
* NEW: UI colors
* NEW: Autohide app toolbar
* NEW: Keep bookmarks over data updates
The app is available on Google play at http://android.kiwix.org and the
APK can also be download at http://download.kiwix.org/bin/kiwix.apk
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