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[RELEASE] Kiwix for iOS v1.0
by Emmanuel Engelhart 06 Oct '15

06 Oct '15

Hi This was a long standing feature request and not the easiest one to implement, that's why the Kiwix development team is pretty proud to announce the release of Kiwix for iOS v1.0. With Kiwix for iOS you can easily download/read recent snapshots (with or without pictures) of all Wikimedia projects with your iPhone/iPad. This first version of the app provides basic functionalities like: * ZIM reader * Navigation through articles * Search based on article title * Content library/downloader * Bookmarks * Browse history * iTunes sync (already in beta testing for v1.1) The app has been developed for the last 18 months by Chris, a New-York based developer. He was (a bit) mentored by an older member of the Kiwix dev team and the project was supported by WikimediaCH for the administrative work with Apple and the coverage of mandatory hardware costs. With this last stone, Kiwix which is already available for Windows, OSX, Linux and Android, has reached a milestone. 10 years after the project creation, Kiwix is a a cutting-edge solution to access Wikipedia (and a lot more) offline - with most of the computers - whatever the platform. Download Kiwix for iOS on Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kiwix/id997079563 Have a look to the source code: https://github.com/kiwix/iOS 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 1.1 for iOS released
by Emmanuel Engelhart 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

Hi A few weeks after the Kiwix for iOS launch, here we come with the first upgrade, Kiwix 1.1 for iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kiwix/id997079563 What's new in version 1.1 * IOS 9.0 support * iPad support * ZIM file transfer using iTunes File Sharing * Many small UI improvements Happy offline reading! 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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Monthly ZIM dumps?
by Gordon Mohr 19 Aug '15

19 Aug '15

The 2015-05 enwiki nopic dump is a great resource for getting bulk article text – much better in my experience than using scripts that try to strip it out of XML dumps, or wrestling with a full MW+Parsoid system. I see threads from earlier in the year that the goal is monthly ZIM dumps. Any projections for when that might be achieved, or perhaps just when the process that succeeded in creating the 2015-05 dump(s) might be repeated as another one-off? - Gordon

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Request to support Kwiizi
by Emmanuel Engelhart 18 Aug '15

18 Aug '15

Hi, A small advertisement email to inform you about Kwiizi crowdsourcing campaign: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/kwiizi-box Kwiizi is a startup from Douala, Cameroon, which develops the Kwiizi-box. The Kwiizi-box is a cheap and small wifi hotspot offering offline content like Wikipedia or Gutenberg project to school without Internet access. In addition the kwiizi-box provides a nice set of social services allowing the students to communicate with each other. This is of course Kiwix-based and all the software is open-source. More details at http://kwiizi.com/. The solution is already deployed in many places in Cameroon and the Kwiizi team needs your help to achieve to get it installed in 20 more schools over the Country. There is only 36 hours left to complete the campaign, so have a look now! https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/kwiizi-box. 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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Last news about Kiwix for Android
by Emmanuel Engelhart 02 Aug '15

02 Aug '15

Hi Last June, the Kiwix team has organised a hackathon focused on mobile technologies in general and Android in particular. http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Hackathon_Mobile_2015 Sponsored by Wikimedia Switzerland, this one week long event has been the occasion to do a few steps forward thx to the hard work of the 4 volunteer developers. As a result, we are proud to announce the release of Kiwix for Android 1.94/1.95 which brings a lot of improvements. Among others: * NEW: Revamped tabs system * NEW: Revamped zoom system * NEW: Audio/Video suport * NEW: Updated "Ray Charles" ZIM demo file * FIXED: AutoCompleteTextView in landscape mode * FIXED: PDF & EPUB viewing * FIXED: Many bugs related to "night mode" * REMOVED: Gingerbread support * REMOVED: Share with friends * REMOVED: Zoom button Install in one click on your device: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile We have also created a new set of tools allowing us to generate and publish quickly Android Bundle Apps (app+content). These apps are really useful for users because in one click in the Google Play Store they have what they want. We have started to use these tools and have already released two high value apps: * Wikivoyage in English: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixcustomwikivoya… * Wikimed in English: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixcustomwikimed An other consequence of this bundling software solution is that it is now trivial for NGO & Companies to distribute devices with free content pre-packaged on 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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Outernet Hackathon
by Emmanuel Engelhart 18 Jul '15

18 Jul '15

Hi The Outernet (http://outernet.is/) Project organises this WE a hackathon in Kampala, Uganda: http://editathon.outernet.is/ Outernet shares a lot of goals with Kiwix and this might be a good opportunities to participate remotely the improvements of offline technologies (from Kiwix or others). Kind 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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Adding a "Tags" metadata to ZIM files
by Emmanuel Engelhart 01 Jul '15

01 Jul '15

Hi, We have more and more ZIM files available for download and we need way to sort/differentiate them. One of the concrete problems we face for example is that we provide at Kiwix a full offline version *with pictures" and one "without pictures". We have adopted a filename scheme allowing to differentiate them but this does not appear transparently in the content managers. As a consequence people are puzzled to see the same content twice (with different file size of course). Adding a "nopic" tags would allow readers to react on it adequately. That's why I'm currently considering the addition of a "Tags" metadata entry in the ZIM format specification. To be more specific, here: http://www.openzim.org/wiki/Metadata Do you think that the right approach? 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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Enciclopedia de Venezuela
by Wilfredor 30 Jun '15

30 Jun '15

Saludos Cordiales, Luego de más de cuatro años, la nueva versión de selección de Artículos para Venezuela, <https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_en_CD/Selecci%C3%B3n_de_a…> se ha culminado y está disponible para probarse. En el proceso de selección se usó Wikitrust <http://wikitrust.soe.ucsc.edu/>, con la ayuda del profesor Luca de Alfaro, junto a la validación Manual. He recibido un gran apoyo personal de Emmanuel Engelhart quién se encargó de la elaboración del archivo comprimido. Me gustaría agradecer la ayuda que recibí por el entonces de Laura Fiorucci, Fhaidel, William, entre otros, en el proceso de validación Manual. Para quienes no conocen el proyecto, explico brevemente. Se trata de una selección de Artículos de Wikipedia disponibles para Kiwix <http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Main_Page>, el lector de Wikipedia Offline oficialmente soportado por WMF. Esta selección se realiza con el objetivo de poder llevar el contenido de Wikipedia y artículos relacionados con Venezuela a lugares en donde la conexión a internet es insuficiente o inexistente. Esta selección posee cerca de 9200 artículos (cabe perfectamente en un CD) y tiene aproximadamente el volumen de 30 tomos de la enciclopedia británica. Para la Instalación, por favor, descargar: Kiwix <http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Main_Page> Enlace de Descarga de la Selección <http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia/wikiped…> Por favor, agradecería que alguien pueda hacer llegar esto a Wikimedia Venezuela para que puedan actualizar el enlace aquí <http://wikimedia.org.ve/wiki/Wikipedia_offline_%28Selecci%C3%B3n_de_Art%C3%…>, y adicionalmente también esté disponible si alguien desea usarlo en sus programas de educación o cualquier iniciativa relacionada. Yo no puedo hacerlo debido a que me encuentro radicado fuera del país, sin embargo, desde aquí cualquier colaboración de mi parte e el proceso. Muchas Gracias

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Zimbalaka - a tool to create zim files
by Arun mozhi 03 Jun '15

03 Jun '15

Hello, I was working as a teacher, I and my friend wanted to give offline wikipedia content to children using tablets. We stumbled upon OpenZim format. After some work over the past two weeks. The tool is finally ready and live at http://www.srik.me/zimbalaka You can read about it here http://www.arunmozhi.in/blog/zimbalaka-an-openzim-creator/ The source code is at https://github.com/tecoholic/Zimbalaka. Kindly take a look and I would be happy if people could host it in multiple places in use it, since current hosting on a friend's server ;) Regards, Arunmozhi

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[youtube2zim] a new tool to create ZIM fiels
by Emmanuel Engelhart 29 Mar '15

29 Mar '15

Hi Dattaz, a volunteer developer, has developed a python script to quickly build a ZIM file from a Youtube Channel or Playlist. The code is here: https://sourceforge.net/p/kiwix/other/ci/master/tree/youtube/ His work was inspired by our ZIM export of the TED talks and allows us to make off-line versions of a large collections of videos. We have already created a few demo files with youtube2zim: * http://download.kiwix.org/zim/other/bil-tunisia_ar_all_2015-03.zim * http://download.kiwix.org/zim/other/deus-ex-silicium_fr_all_2015-03.zim * http://download.kiwix.org/zim/other/universcience-tv_fr_all_2015-03.zim We have also a few improvements in view: like adding the support of Dailymotion or recreate the playlists in case of a whole channel snasphost. Wikimedia Commons is unfortunately still not well recognised as a platform to host videos. However, we have a project to make a ZIM file of the best Commons pictures. If you are interested please subscribe and/or award a token on this blocking task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87571 Thanks again to Dattaz for this really useful work. Kind 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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