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ANNC: Internet-in-a-Box 7.0 for $35 Raspberry Pi 4
by Adam Holt 08 Oct '19

08 Oct '19

*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~

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Kiwix portable for Linux
by Wilfredo Rodríguez 14 Sep '19

14 Sep '19

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*

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Re: [Offline-l] Offline Wikimedians Report
by Florence Devouard 11 Sep '19

11 Sep '19

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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Offline-l mailing list >> Offline-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l

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Prepare your small tasks to mentor a new contributor! (Google Code-in early heads-up)
by Andre Klapper 11 Sep '19

11 Sep '19

(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 -- Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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Offline Wikimedians Report
by Florence Devouard 26 Aug '19

26 Aug '19

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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[KIWIX] Release 2.6.0 of Kiwix JS
by Emmanuel Engelhart 21 Jul '19

21 Jul '19

Hi We just have released version 2.6.0 of Kiwix JS browser extensions for Firefox & Chrome and Kiwix JS for Windows. 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/ Kiwix JS 2.6.0 Changelog: * Support for imagemaps (area tags) in jQuery mode, like for maps in wikivoyage * Enable keyboard selection in search results * Drag and drop support of ZIM files (on desktop) * Support download of epub files (for Gutenberg ZIM files) and some other types of downloads * Generic handling of MIME Types, instead of the previously hard-coded ones * Add explanations and detect when there are CORS issues when running kiwix-js through file:// * Fix for some cache issues in ServiceWorker mode * Some fixes for filenames with question marks, hyperlinks with hashtags, articles with no title, and articles with special characters in their URL Almost at the same time our Windows apps based on Kiwix JS have been updated in Microsoft App Store. You can enjoy our apps on all Windows based devices (mobiles, tablets, PC, Xbox, ...): * Wikivoyage: https://www.microsoft.com/fr-ch/p/wikivoyage-by-kiwix/9n5sb90q4jbj * Wikimed: https://www.microsoft.com/fr-ch/p/wikimed/9phjsnp1cz8j * Kiwix: https://www.microsoft.com/fr-ch/p/kiwix-js/9p8slz4j979j Please report any problem. 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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[KIWIX] 1.9.7 for iOS released
by Emmanuel Engelhart 10 Jul '19

10 Jul '19

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 -- 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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[OPENZIM] MWoffliner 1.9.4 released
by Emmanuel Engelhart 09 Jul '19

09 Jul '19

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 -- 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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[KIWIX] Maintenance release 2.5 for Android
by Emmanuel Engelhart 07 Jul '19

07 Jul '19

Hi Last week we have released Kiwix for Android 2.5. This is a maintenance release, so no new feature, but we have fixed almost 50 bugs around the library and the download manager. As a result, the software is a lot more stable. You can install the last version from the Google Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile Or download the APK: https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-android/2.5.1/ This is only the beginning of a strong effort the Kiwix project (with the help of the Wikimedia Foundation) is putting on our Android ZIM reader. Kiwix for Android 3.0 is next on the schedule and is planned for this summer. Stay tuned! 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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Kiwix Hotspot maintenance release 2.0.7
by Emmanuel Engelhart 01 Jul '19

01 Jul '19

Hi We have released a few days ago a new Kiwix Hotspot version called 2.0.7. Here is the changelog (since my last Kiwix Hostpot release annoucement on this mailing list): 2.0.7 * fixed size evaluation for KA-lite * removed leftovers files on cards after use (kalite, aflatoun lang packs) 2.0.6 * fixed regression (not launching) by reverting to previous pygobjects version 2.0.5 * Added raspberryPi version to version.<fqdn> page * Fixed KAlite installation not working (regression) * KA lite doesn't require manual language selection anymore * Aflatoun lite doesn't require manual language selection anymore * Updated master (06/06/2019) As a reminder, Kiwix Hotspot is probably the easiest solution to create your offline WiFi library running on Raspberry Pi. Whatever your operating system (Windows/MacOS/Linux) is, even if you have no technical skills, you can in a few clicks create a ready-to-use micro SD card for your Raspberry-Pi. More details at https://www.kiwix.org/en/downloads/kiwix-hotspot/ 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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