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Fwd: [All-affiliates] A Message to all User Groups Representatives
by Florence Devouard 31 Mar '19

31 Mar '19

Hello everyone Shani just invited anyone interested on how the UserGroups are going to participate in the upcoming WMF board of trustees election process to join a Telegram group. Anyone from usergroup is invited to join if interested. You will find the link below. Cheers Florence -------- Message transféré -------- Sujet : [All-affiliates] A Message to all User Groups Representatives Date : Sun, 31 Mar 2019 12:08:10 +0200 De : Shani Evenstein <shani.even(a)gmail.com> Répondre à : Wikimedia Affiliates <all-affiliates(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Pour : All Affiliates ML <all-affiliates(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear all, Continuing the process of "on boarding" User Groups to participate in the upcoming election process (which started here on this mailing list and continued in the WMSummit in Berlin), we have opened a telegram group for User Groups. The main purpose of the grouo is for you to have a platform to ask questions relevant pnly to UGs, brainstorm together on how to engage your communities, or just share you thoughts (and frustrations ☺). Here is a link to the new Wiki User Groups Affiliates group. So if you belong to a User Group, please join the group and introduce yourself - https://t.me/joinchat/Ee0ANBOp0AuT48mFpNweqg Please note that more than one person can join the group (unlike this maing list), so please share it with your communities. The more, the merrier. ☺ Cheers, Shani.

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[OPENZIM] libzim 4.0.5 release & bindings
by Emmanuel Engelhart 16 Mar '19

16 Mar '19

Hi Yesterday, in our MWoffliner 1.8.0 release announcement email, I have written about the first libzim official binding of the openZIM project: node-libzim. What I don't have written is that this has been made possible by the previous release of libzim 4.0.5 a few days ago. We release usually new versions of the libzim time to time. Releases which - most of the time - contain minor changes (at least from the user perspective) and mostly used within our openZIM & Kiwix projects. Therefore, we don't make a lot of publicity about them. But, this maintenance release is a bit different. For the first time, we have released binaries and headers for GNU/Linux x86 64 bits. You can find them here: https://download.openzim.org/release/libzim/. It is now easy to build a binding without any hard compilation work, that's what we have done for node-libzim. This is only a first step, we need to go further to offer better opportunities to developers of scrapers. We want in particular to: * Provide libzim binaries for MacOS (and why not for Windows) * Provide a libzim binding in Python (we have a lot of scrapers in Python). Volunteers are really welcome to help make this possible. This would be extremely helpful to provide more & better scrapers. 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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Fwd: Re: [offline] Administrative notes
by Florence Devouard 15 Mar '19

15 Mar '19

Hello All right. I am fairly available this month so I do not mind. Please add me to the list. Then before next summer (so basically Wikimania roughly ?), we need to figure out report+contacts+members Flo Le 13/03/2019 à 17:59, Samuel Klein a écrit : > Gabe: great first logo! Let's use it. > > Florence: I do not have access to the chapter wiki. We were just all > added to a mailing list, and invited to appoint 2 people from each > user group to join the list. Then I believe the list will together > come up with a proposed mechanism for nomination, which will be > reviewed by the WMF Board within 2 weeks. Would you like to be added > to that list? > > I will forward the last email on the topic that I've gotten. I am > willing to be the other person from WOW, but this is a busy month so I > would also be glad to see another person step up. > > Warmly, SJ > > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 3:15 AM Florence Devouard <fdevouard(a)gmail.com > <mailto:fdevouard@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hello > > Le 04/03/2019 à 20:30, Samuel Klein a écrit : >> For group contacts + reports : It would be good to have an >> annual nomination thread, and short wiki vote, a few months >> before our annual report? (/August/ each year) > > Ok. So we could put that back on the table around May ? > > >> That way we can use the same energy to summarize what's been >> happening; those involved in active projects should feel welcome >> to be liaisons; and we keep the meta pages up to date. >> >> On board voting: > > For information, the signpost (well, Bluerasberry) has published > this that is worth reading: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-02-28/In_fo… > > >> + Arranging private votes has been a perennial weakness for the >> movement. Would others be interested in public discussion of >> pros/cons of different candidates? > > For information : > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats > > Ok, vote is one thing. Nomination is another. > > So to start with, I am not sure what is currently the process for > nominating candidates... > Apparently, voting takes care on the ChapterWiki, which is a > private wiki (I suppose that Sam has access to it... do you Sam ?) > I presume that nomination process also takes place on the > ChapterWiki ? Can you tell us if that is the case Sam ? > > >> + I respect the concerns around voting multiple times: we want >> people to be comfortable joining many groups while only voting >> once. Is there any proposal yet re: how to do this? > Unclear > >> + Say that, per Nemo, only incorporated groups vote in the final >> selection. Perhaps we could share formal recommendations with >> that group, before their vote (and sort those out on Meta). > > > As said previously, ALL groups can vote. It is not restricted to > incorporated groups. > But indeed, we can also simply choose to NOT vote. But if so, this > is something we should explicitely decide. > > I vaguely feel that what we should do is > 1) participate in the nomination process (IF we have a name to > propose and IF it is not in the current list - if list there is... > so first thing would be to figure out where the nomination list > would actually be...) > 2) not participate in the vote (because it is unclear who our > membership is and it is likely many of us are in other groups) > > What about starting by polling our "members" on a wiki page about > how they feel about the offline group actually trying to vote for > someone ? > > > Florence > > >> >> SJ >> >> On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 9:39 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) >> <nemowiki(a)gmail.com <mailto:nemowiki@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Thanks for raising the point. >> >> Florence Devouard, 27/02/19 14:17: >> > Yet... an WMF affiliate has some obligations... so how >> should we deal >> > with that in the least time-consuming, least-bureaucratic, >> > least-expensive way, yet playing our role in representing, >> recruting and >> > promoting offline in the mouvement ? >> >> From my point of view as a supporter of offline projects, >> the ideal >> solution is that all affiliates agree that only incorporated >> entities >> will have a formal vote (whatever its weight) in the final >> phase of the >> selection of 2 board seats, to avoid creating new unwanted >> work about >> internal governance. >> >> Alternatively, a simple method might be to decide that all >> user groups >> will have a discussion/vote on a certain wiki page where all >> their >> members can join (Meta-Wiki may be enough if it can be >> public), so that >> it's easy to identify unwanted patterns. (And establish a >> quorum or >> whatever other criteria is decided.) >> >> Federico >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Offline-l mailing list >> Offline-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> <mailto:Offline-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l >> >> >> >> -- >> Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 >> 529 4266 > > > > -- > Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266

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[OPENZIM] MWoffliner 1.8.0 released
by Emmanuel Engelhart 15 Mar '19

15 Mar '19

Hi We have published a new version of MWoffliner: the MediaWiki scraper. Version 1.8.0 is - like always - available here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/mwoffliner This new release contains big improvements in term of performance. MWoffliner 1.8 does not require anymore zimwriterfs binary and can write directly on-the-fly offline ZIM files. This means far less mass storage usage and a number of IO accesses divided by around 5. Here is the detailed changelog: 1.8.0: * UPDATE: Write ZIM files directly (Using Libzim) #184 * UPDATE: Removed 'tmp' files and directory #448 #575 * UPDATE: Removed --deflateTmpHTML and --tmpDirectory arguments #575 #576 * UPDATE: Implemented better request backoff #496 * UPDATE: Change file names/paths #278 * UPDATE: Removed --writeHtmlRedirects argument #506 * UPDATE: Removed --localMCS option (automatically detect) #490 * UPDATE: Updated documentation #423 * FIX: Other stability, logging and error handling fixes All of this has been made possible because a new software piece in openZIM portfolio: node-libzim. node-libzim is a JavaScript/NodeJS binding of our ZIM format reference library: libzim. It allows quickly to read/write ZIM files directly in JavaScript. The code is available in our code forge at https://github.com/openzim/node-libzim and of course available at npmjs.org: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@openzim/libzim. This is the third milestone of a few we have planned with the support of the WMF. Next one on the list is 1.9 and is planned for end of April. With 1.9 we want to implement the full support of MediaWiki categories. 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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Fwd: [All-affiliates] Again, welcome.
by Samuel Klein 13 Mar '19

13 Mar '19

We should identify the people who will be WOW liaisons for this voting process, to María S. //SJ ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Erica Litrenta <elitrenta(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 6:11 AM Subject: Re: [All-affiliates] Again, welcome. To: Wikimedia Affiliates <all-affiliates(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi Shani and all! Here's an attempt at clarifying information I've sent before: There are currently 4 people volunteering for being facilitators (listed at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019#20…! ). Facilitators are an important part as they help all eligible affiliates to participate if they so choose and also serve as liaison to the Foundation’s own board liaison on ASBS, María. So first thing should be to identify the Liaison with María. Then someone else should be appointed as their "deputy <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deputy#Noun>" to be available in case the liaison becomes unavailable due to real life priorities or other issues. I have pinged the people <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Affiliate-selected_Board_…> who already volunteered to be facilitators to remind them that this is the first decision you'll take and they hence should help you make speedily. If I'm allowed to chip in my 2c: this could be as easy as someone saying "I'm gonna be that person if you don't mind". The main reason why I recommend such an approach is that we have a very, very tight timeline <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019#Te…>, in which deciding who's going to be that person isn't by far your most complex task ;) As you may have noticed, I have issued a call yesterday in the hope that more people join the facilitator group, because if we had 3 people when 40 entities could vote... so with anywhere between 100 and ~130 affiliates it is probably important to have at the very least a couple more to ensure the facilitating volunteers aren’t overextending themselves! However, I don't know how long it can take for people to decide to step up, so it appears desirable that this first decision is taken already in a day or two. When you consider that the Board is supposed to approve a new agreement on the process as established by all of you in 10 days or something, then you can see how facilitators will be key into expediting things until the most critical phase that you'll face, which is finding and discussing your Board candidates based on the profiles people identify as desirable in Berlin and beyond! HTH. _______________________________________________ All-affiliates mailing list All-affiliates(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/all-affiliates

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ANNC: Internet-in-a-Box 6.7 lets you drag+drop Wikipedia, Sugarizer, Maps, Apps, Etc!
by Adam Holt 24 Feb '19

24 Feb '19

Announcing the release of Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) 6.7 ! Please use it to "steal" the Internet's crown jewels <http://internet-in-a-box.org/#quality-content> and craft your own LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA using a $35 Raspberry Pi computer, or any old laptop. Our HOW-TO videos <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0cBGCxr_WPBPa3IqPVEe3g> show you how to customize your Internet-in-a-Box "knowledge hotspot" — for your school, your clinic, your library, your entire region — or your very own family. Install Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) 6.7 using its 1-line installer <http://download.iiab.io/6.7> to transform an old laptop into a "learning palace" for a developing world school, that urgently needs this today! Then *drag-and-drop* the very best of the World's Free Knowledge (Wikipedia in any language, thousands of Khan Academy videos, zoomable OpenStreetMap, E-Books, WordPress journaling, the new Sugarizer 1.1, Toys from Trash electronics projects, ETC) for those who are burning for learning — but just happen to be offline. Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) 6.7 Release Notes: https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-6.7-Release-Notes *The crown jewels are all free, liberated — and open source too! Internet-in-a-Box is now used in schools, libraries and medical clinics in more than 20 countries. Why not DIY your own LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA with a $35 Raspberry Pi computer, starting today?*

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[KIWIX] Release 2.5.0 of Kiwix JS
by Emmanuel Engelhart 30 Jan '19

30 Jan '19

Hi We just have released version 2.5.0 of Kiwix JS browser extensions for Firefox & Chrome. 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 2.5.0 Changelog: * Support for javascript content inside the ZIM file, only in ServiceWorker mode. Handle noscript tags in jQuery mode, and display a warning when some unhandled javascript is detected * Preliminary support of video/audio content (including subtitles) : these content types are now supported. You can read them for example in TED/TEDx, dirtybiology, oer4schools etc. BUT the main page of these ZIM files needs javascript to work properly, which is only enabled in ServiceWorker mode. In jQuery mode, the user needs to reach the pages through a search * Some technical fixes : footnotes in wikimedia ZIM files (and, more generally, anchors in hyperlinks), incomplete searches in some specific ZIM files (PhET and TED), compatibility with URLs that contain an apostrophe, remove debug logs in ServiceWorker mode * In the UI, replace the spinner by a more modern one 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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[OPENZIM] MWoffliner 1.7.0 released
by Emmanuel Engelhart 27 Jan '19

27 Jan '19

Hi We have published a new version of MWoffliner: the Mediawiki scraper. Version 1.7.0 is - like always - available here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/mwoffliner This new release contains mainly fixing an code improvements, here is the detailed changelog: * UPDATE: Deprecated desktop scraping (not --mobileLayout) * UPDATE: Improve the article list welcome page #449 * UPDATE: Add string translation mechanism #16 * UPDATE: Fetch hundreds of redirects at a time instead of one #325 * UPDATE: Integrated MCS alongside Parsoid #388 #347 #404 * UPDATE: Introduce automated testing #146 * UPDATE: Support remote articleList and favicon #457 * UPDATE: Added --useCache option #263 This is the second milestone of a few we have planned with the support of the WMF. Next one on the list is 1.8 and is planned for begin of March. With 1.8 will get rid of zimwriterfs and write directly ZIM files without temporary files on the hard disk. This will allow substantial speed-ups and need less mass storage during the scraping process. 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 is looking for an Android Dev! (60-100%, 6 months)
by Stephane Coillet-Matillon 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

Hello everyone, We are looking for an experimented Android developer with a good sense for UX to prepare the version 3 of Kiwix Android. This new version would include the following: Stabilisation of the ZIM download service; Full revamping of the library UI; Improve automated testing infrastructure; Improve continuous integration. The full posting is here: https://www.kiwix.org/android-dev/ <https://www.kiwix.org/android-dev/> If you are interested, or think you know someone who could be interested, feel free to reach out at jobs(a)kiwix.org <mailto:jobs@kiwix.org> Cheers, Stephane

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Internet-in-a-Box
by James Heilman 26 Dec '18

26 Dec '18

As the price of hardware continues to drop the financial barriers to health information for all continue to fall. We are now able to package and ship an offline version of Wikipedia in multiple languages for around 40 USD. And we have sent out nearly 250 units in just over a year. The question now is what are the remaining barriers to widespread distribution and access? Is it a lack of awareness among those who need this technology? Is it still too expensive? Are people looking for different types of content? Or maybe different languages? Peoples thoughts? -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian

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