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Kiwix wins Mozilla MOSS award
by Stephane Coillet-Matillon 06 Dec '19

06 Dec '19

Hey all, We got a bunch of prizes this year but the one award that really matters is the one that was officially confirmed this morning: the Mozilla Foundation has selected Kiwix to build ZIMit, a universal scraper to turn online content to the offline-compatible ZIM format. The plan at this stage is to start work early next year and have the project completed by end of 2020. Ultimately we hope that everyone will be able to create their own zim files to distribute in offline environments :-) Cheers, Stephane

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2-for-1 release announcement, aka 32 and 64-bit goodness
by Stephane Coillet-Matillon 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

Hello all, we have published our latest release candidate for Kiwix-dekstop (Windows & GNU/Linux)! And if you are running deployments on old machines (like, XP/Vista/7 old, ie 32-bits), then stay tuned until the end of this mail - Kiwix-desktop 2.0 RC4: nothing major, but still a few improvements. Here's the log of new features and fixes for this RC4: * New "Settings" page * Better aria2c error message * Fix Reading list with bookmarks from missing books * Support video fullscreen mode * Support the default zoom level setting * Support zoom level per content * Remove page view source feature * Stop crashing if a download fails - Now for the interesting bit: Kiwix-JS has been ported to work on all flavours of Windows 32-bit systems. It actually runs on all architectures, but that'll be especially relevant to anyone having to deal with older machines (Windows 7 and below, there's still plenty of XP and Vista around). Please note that just as with the (Firefox/Chrome) browser extensions, there might be some limitations compared to the real thing. But hey, the reference point here is having nothing instead since the old Kiwix-desktop 0.9 doesn't handle so well the new flavours of our zim files. But even then, Jaifroid and Mossroy have done nothing less than an Amazing Job*. You can download it all here: * Windows x86 64 bits: https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-desktop/kiwix-desktop_windows_x64.… [https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-desktop/kiwix-desktop_windows_x64.…] * Linux x86 64 bits: https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-desktop/kiwix-desktop_x86_64.appim… [https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-desktop/kiwix-desktop_x86_64.appim…] or https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-desktop/org.kiwix.desktop.flatpak [https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-desktop/org.kiwix.desktop.flatpak]. Also available on Flathub https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.kiwix.desktop [https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.kiwix.desktop] * Kiwix-JS for Windows x86 32 bits https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-js-windows/kiwix-js-windows_0.9.9.… [https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-js-windows/kiwix-js-windows_0.9.9.…] * Kiwix-JS Chrome extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kiwix/donaljnlmapmngakoipdmehbfci… [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kiwix/donaljnlmapmngakoipdmehbfci…] * Kiwix-JS Firefox extension https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/kiwix-offline/ [https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/kiwix-offline/] Thanks to everyone who made these possible. Enjoy, Stephane * alternative wording would be Stellar, Excellent, Great, YUGE.

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Knowledge equity advent calendar
by Stephane Coillet-Matillon 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

Hi everyone, I see that Wikimedia Deutschland is running an advent calendar on knowledge equity (ie access to knowledge for, you know, people without access).[1] They have a couple of stories lined up already on famously sidelined places like Norway and Taiwan. I'd expect most of the 20+ others to be written up already, yet to my knowlege they haven't reached out to Kiwix so we could point them to people doing deployments in Africa, India, South America, US & European prisons und so weiter. By the look of it they seem very much focused on people building knowledge rather than distributing it, and I can see a couple of good reasons for that. But I'm still half hoping that they did, in fact, reach out to someone else on this list and that offline access will be mentioned somehow. Can anyone confirm they spoke with our German friends? Cheers, Stephane [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Equity_Calendar [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Equity_Calendar]

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