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128 Gb versions of IIAB
by James Heilman 19 Nov '18

19 Nov '18

Hey All. Have started producing 128 Gb versions of Internet-in-a-Box. What they contain is all of English Wikipedia (77 Gb, version from a month ago) plus all of one of Arabic, Spanish, French, or Portuguese WP. French may or may not include pictures. Cost of manufacturing is about 50 USD. Further customization is possible after getting the device. Plan to gradually increase production based on demand. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian

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Fwd: 100 Wikimedia User Group milestone - Call to action
by Samuel Klein 25 Sep '18

25 Sep '18

>From Dumi -- what offline social accounts and pages are there? Say for individual projects? ---------- Forwarded message --------- As you may know, we're about to pass a significant milestone in the Wikimedia movement in the next two weeks: having 100 user groups. To celebrate, we'd like to propose that each user group post a short message on social media the day that the 100 user group milestone is passed, with a unique fact about yourself and using the hashtag *#100usergroups. *We will then amplify some of these messages into the @wikimedia account. (We'll email again once the milestone has been passed.) [image: beacon]

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[KIWIX] Kiwix JS and Kiwix JS Windows 2.3.1 are out!
by Emmanuel Engelhart 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

Hi We just have published a new maintenance release of our Javascript based Kiwix ports for Chrome & Firefox browsers, Windows mobile and Xbox devices as for UBports (Ubuntu Touch). As a reminder, these ports are not full featured like native code based Kiwix ports and might be a bit slower, but offer other nice properties, like for example an excellent portability. Kiwix JS 2.3.1 Changelog: * Fix excessive memory consumption * Fix SVG file handling * Add favicon You can find the new Browser extensions: * Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kiwix/donaljnlmapmngakoipdmehbfci… * Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kiwix-offline/ Update is also available on the Microsoft app store for the Kiwix JS Windows reader and a few custom apps, see: * https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/kiwix-js/9p8slz4j979j * https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/wikimed/9phjsnp1cz8j * https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/wikivoyage-by-kiwix/9n5sb90q4jbj Work continues on our forge at https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-js and https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-js-windows. Regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication

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Google Code-in 2018: Mentor some smaller tasks for young contributors!
by Andre Klapper 10 Sep '18

10 Sep '18

<tl;dr>: Read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors and add your name to the mentors table and start tagging #GCI-2018 tasks. We'll need MANY mentors and MANY tasks, otherwise we cannot make it. Google Code-in is an annual contest for 13-17 year old students. It will take place from Oct23 to Dec13. It's not only about coding: we also need tasks about design, docs, outreach/research, QA. Last year, 300 students worked on 760 tasks supported by 51 mentors. For some achievements from last round, see https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/20/wikimedia-google-code-in-2017/ While we wait whether Wikimedia will get accepted: * You have small, self-contained bugs you'd like to see fixed? * Your documentation needs specific improvements? * Your user interface has some smaller design issues? * Your Outreachy/Summer of Code project welcomes small tweaks? * You'd enjoy helping someone port your template to Lua? * Your gadget code uses some deprecated API calls? * You have tasks in mind that welcome some research? Note that "beginner tasks" (e.g. "Set up Vagrant") and generic tasks are very welcome (like "Choose and fix 2 PHP7 issues from the list in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120336" style). We also have more than 400 unassigned open #easy tasks listed: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/HCyOonSbFn.z/#R Can you mentor some of those tasks in your area? Please take a moment to find / update [Phabricator etc.] tasks in your project(s) which would take an experienced contributor 2-3 hours. Read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors , ask if you have any questions, and add your name to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/2018#List_of_Wikimedia_mentors (If you have mentored before and have a good overview of our infrastructure: We also need more organization admins! See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Admins ) Thanks (as we cannot run this without your help), andre -- Andre Klapper | ak-47(a)gmx.net https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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[KIWIX][SID] Kiwix Desktop 2.0
by Emmanuel Engelhart 09 Sep '18

09 Sep '18

Hi Like most of you probably know, an intensive effort is currently led to replace our oldest piece of software: Kiwix Desktop 0.9 for Windows/MacOS/Linux. We will skip the version 1.0 because this is full rewriting of the UI, using a new approach and a new UI design. This time, we have decided to propose a MacOS version using Apple native UI components and we have achieve to make it :) It is now available on iTunes http://macos.kiwix.org/. You can also download it from here https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-desktop-macos/kiwix-desktop-macos_…. This version for MacOS does not offer all the features which were available in 0.9 but is a lot more stable and works fine so far we know. It is also really easy to install thanks to the availability on iTunes. More advanced features (in particular the content management) will come back later in 2019. Please report any problem to https://github.com/kiwix/apple/issues. For Windows and Linux, we are almost at the same stage, we just have published an alpha3 version here: https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-desktop/. Like for MacOS, it is still not full-featured, but our ambition is to release the 2.0 for end of October with the content manager included. Please give it a try and share your feedback here: https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-desktop/issues. I'll keep you inform in the next weeks about further test releases. Regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication

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