Dear WOW,
We should compile a report on offline work this past year.
If you have run an offline event, project, or partnership, please add it to
the December report here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Reports
Warmly, SJ
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Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
*Install Internet-in-a-Box 3X Faster on Raspberry Pi 4*
*F**or Rural Schools, Libraries and Medical Clinics*
When clickbait-driven misinformation puts journalism, human rights (and
democracy itself) at risk — where do we turn?
Communities around the planet are taking the future into their own hands —
crafting their own purpose-built digital libraries to...
*Bring essential / endangered / indigenous knowledge and learning rights to
life*
*Announcing Internet-in-a-Box 7.0 — with offline Wikipedia, offline Khan
Academy, RACHEL content packs — and tons more...*
- Pick a subset of the Internet Archive Offline
<https://github.com/iiab/iiab/tree/master/roles/internetarchive#internet-arc…>
from
some of the greatest libraries around the world.
- Install an IIAB Map Pack <https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-Maps> for
your favorite continent, with satellite photos across 10 levels of zoom,
and natural/human geography visible across 15-to-19 levels of zoom.
(OpenStreetMap vector maps are like Google Maps, but better for schools
especially, as they work offline and avoid the advertising!)
- Involve MediaMaking tools like Nextcloud 17's offline collaboratives
editor <https://youtu.be/Nr7cGN6ZJM0> (like Google Docs) helping
students learn modern/team workflows.
- Explore electronics projects with Node-Red 1.0
<https://nodered.org/blog/2019/09/30/version-1-0-released> flow-based /
event-driven visual programming.
- Set up an "offline GitHub"
<https://github.com/iiab/iiab/tree/master/roles/gitea#gitea-readme> to
teach coding-with-a-conscience where there's no Internet, nurturing the
next generation of free and open developers!
DIY'ing your own "Library of Alexandria" is that easy — for any local schools,
libraries, health clinics and/or family of your choosing.
Simply drag and drop the best of the World Free Knowledge Content Packs,
using Internet-in-a-Box installed on any $35 Raspberry Pi 4 computer:
*Building your own offline library is now easier than ever*
Thanks Everyone for weaving in the (g)local knowledge ecosystems that
matter most — both the Internet's crown jewels (Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap,
Khan Academy, etc) AND countless lesser-known environmental /
indigenous cultural
content vitals.
You can even update to the latest Content Packs, bringing your rural
Internet-in-a-Box into the city every semester, using almost any home
Internet connection e.g. to download the very latest Wikipedia etc!
Please read about Internet-in-a-Box 7.0's new capabilities making this all
possible: *IIAB 7.0 Release Notes*
<https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-7.0-Release-Notes>
And try it out, asking us
<http://wiki.laptop.org/go/IIAB/FAQ#What_are_the_best_places_for_community_s…>
any
questions!
Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) 7.0 represents 7+ months of work since IIAB 6.7 — and
we're very proud to offer this to you for free!
Thanks to some amazing free/open source work from professional volunteers
around the world
<https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-7.0-Release-Notes#credits>, who are
servicing and learning from the more than 20 countries
<http://wiki.laptop.org/go/IIAB/FAQ#Where_is_Internet-in-a-Box_used.3F> where
IIAB is in use, in partially offline and fully offline environments both.
And...if you're not yet familiar with Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB), watch our
videos to get acquainted: *http://internet-in-a-box.org
<http://internet-in-a-box.org/>*
*Last but not least, consider our personal INVITATION...*
1) The Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) Community Summit will be in Boston November
7-10, in conjunction with Wikipedia North America's
http://wikiconference.org at MIT. To attend, please reply privately to
this email, so we can help you make arrangements. Building on our 2017
http://OFF.NETWORK <http://off.network/> "med/ucational" content hackathon,
we'll demo our new offline versions of
https://en.unesco.org/womeninafrica/ inviting
all to do similar, learning how easy it is to now *roll your own*
environmental/indigenous/etc
Content Packs!
2) Whether you're on the technology, humanitarian or field implementation
side of learning rights, do consider helping us refine the upcoming IIAB 7.1
<https://github.com/iiab/iiab/milestone/6>. Here's a list of just a few of
the advances
<https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-7.0-Release-Notes#what-might-future-…>
now
being considered and worked on, that we'd really love your help
architecting and polishing for early 2020!
3) Join any of our Thursday Internet-in-a-Box Live Community Calls (
http://minutes.iiab.io) to learn about and contribute to everyone's
high-quality free and open knowledge ecosystems — typically held 10AM NYC
Time — in alliance with Wikipedia, Kiwix, OpenStreetMap, Kolibri (formerly
Khan Academy Lite) and amazing others~
Hi guys,
I have received some messages from Cuba requesting help to install Kiwix
and its wikipedia package in Spanish on Ubuntu.
The main problem comes when the user can download and burn a CD on a public
machine but he does not have Internet on his computer, that is, carrying
the ZIM file does not represent any problem, however, installing kiwix on
linux offline It represents another level of complexity especially in the
installation process during the installation when dependencies are being
resolved (this could be a nightmare down dependencies manually).
This is a recurring problem and I have received several messages, so far I
have not found any solution. I've been thinking about maybe a live cd
version with kiwix. I would like to hear your suggestions.
Thank you.
*Wilfredo Rodríguez*
Hello everyone
A reminder to please add to the UserGroup annual report. Bullet points
totally welcome.
Thanks
Florence and Sj
>> Le 26 août 2019 à 13:37, Florence Devouard <fdevouard(a)gmail.com> a écrit :
>>
>> Hello
>>
>>
>> The first UG report is now due.
>>
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_offline_wikis
>>
>>
>> I have drafted the report page : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Reports
>>
>>
>> Please join it to shortly summarize what you have been doing since Spring 2018, with relevant links and photos
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> Florence and Sj
>>
>>
>>
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(Note: This is only an early heads-up, to be prepared. Google Code-in
has NOT been announced yet, but last year, GCI mentors asked for more
time in advance to identify tasks to mentor. Here you are. :)
* 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?
Google Code-in (GCI) is an annual contest for 13-17 year old students.
GCI 2019 has not yet been announced but usually takes place from late
October to December. It is not only about coding: We also need tasks
about design, docs, outreach/research, QA.
Read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors , add
your name to the mentors table, and start tagging tasks in Wikimedia
Phabricator by adding the #gci-2019 project tag.
We will need MANY mentors and MANY tasks, otherwise we cannot make it.
Last year, 199 students successfully worked on 765 tasks supported by
39 mentors. For some achievements from the last round, see
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/02/20/partnerships-make-it-possib…
Note that "beginner tasks" (e.g. "Set up Vagrant") and generic
tasks are very welcome (like "Choose and replace 2 uses of
Linker::link() from the list in T223010" style).
We also have more than 400 unassigned open #good-first-bug tasks:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/3YnDUWYJfXSo/#R
Can and would you mentor some of these 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/2019#List_of_Wikimedia_mentors
Thanks (as we will not be able to run this without your help),
andre
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Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate
https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
Hi
We have published a new maintenance release of Kiwix for iOS 1.9 branch.
Here is a short changelog:
* Fix memory usage issue when performing searches
* swift 5.2
* Version bump of libkiwix, realm and SwiftyUserDefaults
* Removed third party library ProcedureKit, now use
Foundation.OperationQueue to handle async tasks
Kiwix for iOS has been conceived for iPhone & iPad devices.
The app is available on iTunes at http://ios.kiwix.org.
Please share with us problems and remarks:
https://github.com/kiwix/apple/issues
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
Hi
We have published a new version of MWoffliner: the MediaWiki scraper.
This new release contains mostly smaller bug fixes. Here is the detailed
changelog:
* UPDATE: README improvements (#880)
* UPDATE: Smarter and more efficient article fetching
* UPDATE: Remove hard-coded font-sizes for headings (#825)
* UPDATE: Write categories to 'U' namespace
* UPDATE: Redis handling improvements (#448)
* UPDATE: Improved code quality & automated testing (#687)
* FIX: Implement scraping of <audio> elements
* FIX: Thumbnail image fetching on nopic (#867)
Version 1.9.4 is - like always - available here:
* NodeJS package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/mwoffliner
* Docker image: https://hub.docker.com/r/openzim/mwoffliner
Around ~10 tickets are still open in our 1.9 milestone:
https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner/milestone/11. We plan to make an
additional maintenance release before the end of the month and then
start the development of MWoffliner 2.0.
Like always, PR and bug reports are welcome at:
https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner
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