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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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[OPENZIM][KIWIX] New offline version of the Gutenberg project
by Emmanuel Engelhart 27 Oct '18

27 Oct '18

Hi We finally have generated new offline versions of the famous Gutenberg project library which has almost 60.000 free ebooks. See https://www.gutenberg.org/. This version provides of course more books than ever before, but also fixes many bugs which were impacting the scrapper or the user interface. We have extended the number of UI supported languages and fulltext search is now provided natively with Kiwix - no need to compute an external fulltext index. The offline versions are available like usual in the ZIM format. More details about the ZIM format and the openZIM project at http://www.openzim.org/ You can easily download one ZIM file with all the Gutenberg project books in all languages: * via HTTP: https://download.kiwix.org/zim/gutenberg_mul_all.zim * via BitTorrent: https://download.kiwix.org/zim/gutenberg_mul_all.zim.torrent * Language specific files at https://download.kiwix.org/zim/ * rsync or FTP are also supported. These ZIM files are readable wherever you want and on almost all kinds of devices thanks the multiple Kiwix ports, pick yours at http://www.kiwix.org/ or on your preferred app store. If you are curious and want just to have a look, please visit your library at https://library.kiwix.org/gutenberg_mul_all_2018-10/. For tech people, all the scrapper is open source and maintained. Join us: * https://github.com/openzim/gutenberg * https://pypi.org/project/gutenberg2zim/ * https://hub.docker.com/r/openzim/gutenberg/ We hope you will enjoy it! 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: 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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Creating an offline-wiki user group
by Samuel Klein 27 Aug '18

27 Aug '18

A few of us met to discuss offline roadmaps and challenges today, and noting that no user gropu exists [and that other overviews of offline projects on Meta are a bit out of date] we started a user group. This is a very low-overhead group to provide a name for the network of all offline projects. Please add links to your own active projects from this page. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_wiki_user_group SJ

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Kiwix for Android and iOS updated
by Emmanuel Engelhart 22 Aug '18

22 Aug '18

Hi Here are the last mobile maintenance releases. They have been rolled out last week. 1.9.4 for iOS: * NEW: sort languages in library language filter both by count or alphabetically * NEW: search for a zim file by name in library online catalog 2.4 for Android: * FIX: External SD card problems * FIX: Some UI translation * FIX: Download manager process sporadic problems * FIX: Support of most recent 4GB+ ZIM files * NEW: Display download time estimation * NEW: Many improvements in fulltext search * NEW: Allow manual update of storage location * NEW: Sort Bookmarks alphabetically * NEW: Option to download only via WIFI Kiwix for Android still suffers of a massive stability problem in the download feature. Something we plan to fully fix in next version 3.0. 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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offline-wiki is back!
by Samuel Klein 07 Aug '18

07 Aug '18

If you remember the old offline-wiki google site, it's been rewritten and is back online. I met Kevin, its maintainer, at the DWeb summet last week: he's still thinking deeply about these things. [elsewhere at the event we talked about effective ways to distribute incremental updates to knowledgesets like this; something that should be connected to the related thinking withink kiwix :)] https://offlinewiki.app/ SJ

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Kiwix / WMF partnership
by Stéphane Coillet-Matillon 18 Jul '18

18 Jul '18

Hi all, A quick note to announce that Kiwix and the Wikimedia Foundation have decided to enter a more formal partnership to replace the limited, project-based approach we had until now. The official announcement is here: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/07/18/wikimedia-foundation-and-kiwix-partne… The TL;DR of it is that we'll be able to continue to build on the massive improvements we made over the past 18 months. We have 3 million users, and there are 4 billion people without reliable access: there certainly is room for more growth. This is a first, small step, but an important one : for this year we'll focus on improving user experience, and make it easier for people to access content offline (aka zim farm). If this works well, I'd like us to look into incremental updates as early as next year. Thanks to everyone on this list that helped make it happen! Emmanuel and Stephane

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