A few of us met to discuss offline roadmaps and challenges today, and
noting that no user gropu exists [and that other overviews of offline
projects on Meta are a bit out of date] we started a user group. This is a
very low-overhead group to provide a name for the network of all offline
projects.
Please add links to your own active projects from this page.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_wiki_user_group
SJ
Hi
The Kiwix team is proud to publish the first version of its Kiwix-plug
installer (also called Pibox installer). A tool with both command line
and graphical user interface to easily setup a Kiwix-plug on a RaspberryPi.
Using a PC on Windows/MacOS/Linux and having a good connection to
internet, you can with a few mouse clicks configure a SD card for a
RaspberryPi3. You then just have to wait (The Windows version is still
really slow due to the virtualisation) to get your offline library WIFI
hotspot with the content of your choice.
Give it a try, just download Kiwix-plug installer from here:
https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-plug_installer/v1.0/
Software code is open-source, please open tickets if you have any
bug/question/remark: https://framagit.org/ideascube/pibox-installer
Do you want to know more?
Kiwix plug is a portable server. With it, you can create a local network
and deliver content to users. Kiwix plug allows you to share files
easily: once they are connected to the Kiwix network, content is
available for anybody through their own Web browser.
Kiwix-plug has been created 5 years ago and integrated first
kiwix-serve, the HTTP daemon serving ZIM files and a custom based set of
system scripts and HTML pages. It has been distributed in hundreds of
schools and cultural centers, mostly in Africa but not only. This is,
for example, the solution on which ran the devices distributed within
the WikiFundi project. You can find a few more technical details here
http://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Kiwix-plug.
Kiwix-plug installer v1.0 is not only a disrupting new way of creating
this kind of offline libraries, it is also a new solution motorising the
Kiwix-plug. Using Ideascube (https://framagit.org/ideascube/ideascube),
we have been able to provide a much nice user interface and fix many of
our long standing bugs.
Kiwix-plug installer v2.0 is already in development and its release is
planned in a few weeks. The features will be really similar, but the
overall speed/performance will be greatly improved.
We are also working on a cloud version of the Pibox-installer, allowing
to create the SD card images from a web page... but we will tell you
more about that in an other email :)
Regards
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 iOS.
New Library Design:
* ZIM files are grouped by topic categories
* ZIM file detail view
* Downloading content and catalog are displayed in one place
* On iPads, using a split view with ZIM file / categories on the left
and detail on the right
Bookmark:
* Now displayed as a side panel on iPad
* Add / remove bookmark interface is now presented as a HUD and does not
cover up all the screen space
Reading:
* Now ask users for confirmation when opening external links. Can be
turned on or off in settings
Core:
* Massive multiple improvement of the ZIM file mgmt through introduction
of Kiwix lib 2.0.
iOS:
* An effort has been made to keep compatibility with iOS 10.
The app is available on iTunes at http://ios.kiwix.org.
Enjoy
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