Hi
10 years ago we have launched the Kiwix project to bring Wikipedia to
people with no or a bad access to Internet. Today, we are really proud
to see that we have achieved to do that, and even more.
All of this would not have been made possible without a committed team
of volunteers and the strong support of Wikimedia Switzerland. Thanks to
them (and a few other ones) we have achieved to:
* Make Wikipedia readable offline on (almost) all kind of devices
* Provide monthly updates of all Wikimedia projects
* Provide an open-source/standardised offline technology re-usable for
any kind of web content with openZIM
* Build offline versions of various projects like Gutenberg, TEDs,
Vikidia, Youtube, ...
With the additional help of dozens of partners, which spread content and
technology in the field, we can track around 1M of users a year... and
strongly believe this is the "tip of the iceberg".
Luckily, in the last 10 years, we have done a lot of progresses in the
Internet access. That said, around half of the world population still
does not have an access to Internet and censorship is a raising and
already extremely serious problem.
As a consequence, we will be pretty busy in the next decade and will
continue to improve our technology and offer always better solutions to
read and spread free knowledge - offline.
We have made a blog post about our anniversary on Wikimedia blog, please
share it on the social networks:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/10/11/kiwix-ten-years/
Regards
Emmanuel Engelhart
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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
Wikimedia CH is looking for a HTML/Node.js/JavaScript/CSS contractor to help with Kiwix, the offline Wikipedia reader
The Kiwix project (http://code.kiwix.org/ <http://code.kiwix.org/>, http://www.kiwix.org <http://www.kiwix.org/>) is an offline reader for web content. Contents are stored into a local ZIM file that can be browsed later on.
Although Kiwix' main use is that of an offline Wikipedia reader, it also supports other kinds of content (other Wikimedia projects, Stackoverflow, TED talks, etc.)
The ZIM archive we currently generate from Wikimedia dumps is not very mobile-friendly. We need someone to modify the scrapper (https://github.com/kiwix/mwoffliner <https://github.com/kiwix/mwoffliner> in Node.js) so as subsequently to improve/preprocess the html/css/js content.A list of task can be found here:
* https://github.com/kiwix/mwoffliner <https://github.com/kiwix/mwoffliner>
* https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix/labels/be-mobile <https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix/labels/be-mobile>
This is a free (as in free speech) project, so a bit of experience with interacting with a community would be a plus. But any one can join.
If you're interested, please send an email to
Emmanuel Engelhart <emmanuel.engelhart(a)wikimedia.ch <mailto:emmanuel.engelhart@wikimedia.ch>> and
Matthieu Gautier <mgautier(a)kymeria.fr <mailto:mgautier@kymeria.fr>>
Hi
Kiwix-plug is the Kiwix solution to easily get an offline Wifi Hotspot
full of knowledge. For USD 100 of hardware you can have the full
Wikipedia and hundreds of videos to spread wireless in a school, a camp
or a conference room. Everybody can then access to the information via
their own notebook or smart-phone.
And now, this is even easier to build this system. Take your
RaspberryPi3 SD card, copy the disk image on it, and your own Kiwix-plug
is ready. Here are the disk images freely available to download:
http://download.kiwix.org/plug/
For now we publish only disk images in Spanish and English but this is
only the first step, we will publish more soon. More documentation about
the Kiwix-plug can be found here:
http://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Kiwix-plug
Enjoy it!
Emmanuel Engelhart
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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
zimwriterfs is a command line tools which transforms any local directory
with static HTML files to the corresponding ZIM file. At Kiwix we have
created that tool years ago and have been using it intensively since.
The last months many improvements have been brought to zimwriterfs:
* Increase the speed
* Clean the code
* Make it able to create ZIM with full-text index inside
Most of that work has been done during Esino Lario Kiwix hackathon. For
more details about other achievements:
http://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Hackathon_Wikimania_2016
We thought this is now a good time to publish it as a part of the
openZIM project and to provide official release mgmt, tarballs and
support. Here it is:
http://www.openzim.org/download/zimwriterfs-1.0.tar.xz
ZIM is a great format which has proven his efficiency (compression
level, versatility, portability, random access speed and performance)
over the past 5 years and which deserves to be even broader used. Other
projects, in addition to Kiwix, should adopt the ZIM format for offline
content distribution or researches purposes.
As a consequence, the effort to improve documentation/packaging/tools
around ZIM will continue in the next months and in 2017. Everything will
be posted here, like usual. More details about the openZIM project at
http://www.openzim.org/
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
Hi
After almost two years since the last release, the new libzim is out:
http://www.openzim.org/download/zimlib-1.3.tar.gz
This new release brings a few improvements and bugs fixes:
* FIXED: zimdump crash with long filenames
* FIXED: few portability issues
* NEW: method to get real file offset of article in ZIM
* NEW: smarter article cluster building (+5% compression)
* NEW: one pass writing process (instead of two)
These improvements allow easier:
* new bindings (like node-libzim)
* new features of the ZIM format, like integrating the fulltext search index
* creation of more ZIM files (speed-up ZIM creation)
This improvements have been done by a few developers mostly during our
Kiwix hackathon @Wikimania Esino. This has been made possible with the
support of:
* Fondation Orange
* Wikimedia CH
* Wikimedia Foundation
* Bibliothèque sans frontière
More information about the project openZIM and the ZIM format at:
http://www.openzim.org/
Regards
Emmanuel Engelhart
--
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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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Offline Medical Wikipedia in Persian
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2016 16:21:46 -0600
From: James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com>
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Hey All
Today we launched an offline version of Wikipedia's medical content in
Persian. Thank's to the local community, Translators Without Borders,
Wikimedia CH, and my colleagues at Wiki Project Med for bringing this about.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixcustomwikimedfa
More languages coming soon.
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MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Arabic version of Offline Medical App Launches
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 04:29:06 -0600
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Hey All
We have just launched the Arabic version of our offline medical app. It is
all of Arabic Wikipedia's healthcare, pharmaceutical, anatomy, and
sanitation articles.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixcustomwikimedar
Only avaliable for Android at this point in time. Persian coming soon :-)
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