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XOWA v1.1.1 released
by gnosygnu 08 Jan '14

08 Jan '14

v1.1.1 is a general release. It also happens to mark one full year of XOWA development (with 50+ releases) The files are available here: http://xowa.sourceforge.net/download.html These are the major changes since the last announcement (v0.11.0): * Offline thumbnails for English Wikipedia: 2013-11-04 and 2013-12-02 update * Offline thumbnails for German, French, and Polish Wikipedia * Offline packages (wikis + thumbnails) for English, German, French and Polish sister wikis. For a full list, see http://xowa.sourceforge.net/image_dbs.html * DynamicPageList improvements for Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikinews. * Auto-convert support for Chinese wikis * Search suggest improvement for more accurate results * Faster redlinks * New image cache for thumbnails * Mac OS X 64 bit build * Various minor parser fixes A full list of changes is available at [[Help:Change_log]] inside XOWA As always, any feedback is appreciated. Thanks.

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kiwix beta
by rupert THURNER 03 Jan '14

03 Jan '14

hi, would it be possible to have a second upload to google play store called "kiwix beta" to allow easier testing of new features. advantages: * no relaxing of the android phone security to install an apk from untrusted source * easy state the new features on the play page * automatic update notification to people interested in testing the new version rupert.

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Testers needed for new Kiwix 0.9rc3 (Windows/OSX/Linux/Sugar) release
by Emmanuel Engelhart 24 Dec '13

24 Dec '13

Hi We are almost ready to release a new version of Kiwix (for Windows/OSX/Linux/Sugar). This release will be called 0.9rc3 and provides a few fixes/improvements to the current 0.9rc2. The most important fixes/improvements are: * Global improvement of kiwix-serve * Better data structure (easier to move data files) ... complete changelog is available here: http://changelog.kiwix.org We really need testers to verify that we don't have some regressions and that new features work correctly. You can find nightly builds at: * http://download.kiwix.org/nightly/bin/latest/ * http://download.kiwix.org/nightly/bin/ Kind regards Emmanuel

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Kiwix for Android 1.7 released
by Emmanuel Engelhart 20 Dec '13

20 Dec '13

Hi, Thank to the Google Code-in program, we can do a new release every three weeks. This one is the "Ahmad" release, named after the German student who has developed most of the following new features: * NEW Tabs system * NEW "scanner" tool for the filepicker * NEW UI language chooser * NEW UI support for Android non native languages * NEW "save image" feature * FIX buggy "Show back to top button" option We have also reached 6.000 active users on Android Play store. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile APK file can be directly downloaded at: http://download.kiwix.org/bin/android/kiwix-1.7.apk 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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download or create a book on android-4.1, chrome, not possible
by rupert THURNER 20 Dec '13

20 Dec '13

hi, sorry for crossposting this, but i am a little lost whom to ask. erik mentioned some time ago how important zim support is in collections, and mentioned that there are barely downloads. very rarely i get my hands on a new enought android version where kiwix runs. and i tried to (1) create a book, and (2) download a book. both failed. 1. create a book the mobile skin is lacking the "book" or "add page to book" link. calling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Book does not help either, there is no obvious way to add pages to a book. 2. download a book go to a book like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Books/Derivatives. the mobile skin again is broken and the download link is crippled. if one is lucky to hit the zim download link anyway, it switches over to a non-mobile link to generate the book. it really seems to generate the book, and displays a link. clicking it then downloads a 6.5 mb big "index.php" and says "failed". you have any idea what i do wrong? rupert.

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Release of Kiwix for Android v.16
by Emmanuel Engelhart 10 Dec '13

10 Dec '13

Hi, last week we have released a new version of Kiwix for Android which includes a few new features. Most of them were coded by young students participating to the Google Code-in program: * New "share with friends" button * New "fullscreen" feature * New 'back to top" button * Better search suggestions * Small UI fixes Enjoy: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile 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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XOWA has released a complete set of thumbnails for 2013-11-04 English Wikipedia -- Seeders wanted!
by gnosygnu 26 Nov '13

26 Nov '13

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Best script for static html of a mediawiki
by Bjoern Hassler 22 Nov '13

22 Nov '13

Hello! What script would you recommend to create a static offline version of a mediawiki? (Perhaps with and without parsoid?) I've been looking for a good solution for ages, and have experimented with a few things. Here's what we currently do. It's not perfect, and really a bit too cumbersome, but it works as a proof of concept. To illustrate: E.g. one of our wiki pages is here: http://orbit.educ.cam.ac.uk/wiki/OER4Schools/What_is_interactive_teaching We have a "mirror" script, that uses the API to generate an HTML version of a wiki page (which is then 'wrapped' in a basic menu): http://orbit.educ.cam.ac.uk/orbit_mirror/index.php?page=OER4Schools/What_is… (Some log info printed at the bottom of the page, which will provide some hints as to what is going on.) The resulting page is as low-bandwidth as possible (which is one of our use cases). The original idea with the mirror php script was that you could run it on your own server: It only requests pages if they have changed, and keeps a cache, which allows viewing pages if your server has no connectivity. (You could of course use a cache anyway, and there's advantages/disadvantages compared to this more explicit caching method.) The script rewrites urls so that normal page links stay within the mirror, but links for editing and history point back at the wiki (see tabs along the top of the page). The mirror script also produces (and caches) a static web page, see here: http://orbit.educ.cam.ac.uk/orbit_mirror/site/OER4Schools%252FHow_to_run_wo… Assuming that you've run a wget across the mirror, then the site will be completely mirrored in '/site'. You can then tar up '/site' and distribute it alongside your w/images directory, and you have a static copy, or use rsync to incrementally update '/site' and w/images on another server. There's also a api-based process, that can work out which pages have changes, and refreshes the mirror accordingly. Most of what I am using is in the mediawiki software already (i.e. API->html), and it would be great to have a solution like this, that could generate an offline site on the fly. Perhaps one could add another export format to the API, and then an extension could generate the offline site and keep it up to date as pages on the main wiki are changing. Does this make sense? Would anybody be up for collaborating on implementing this? Are there better things in the pipeline? I can see why you perhaps wouldn't want it for one of the major wikimedia sites, or why it might be inefficient somehow. But for our use cases, for a small-ish wiki, with a set of poorly connected users across the digital divide, it would be fantastic. So - what are your solutions for creating a static offline copy of a mediawiki? Looking forward to hearing about it! Bjoern

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How important is ZIM support in Collections?
by Erik Moeller 20 Nov '13

20 Nov '13

Hi offline community, how important is ZIM support in Collections (the "Create a book" feature) on Wikimedia sites? We implemented this a while ago to support offline efforts. Since collections are still typically very much limited in size, it's not a very viable option for huge offline exports, more for batches of articles on related topics. Do people currently rely on this functionality for offline deployments? We're re-implementing the rendering pipeline for Collections to ensure long-term maintainability, and our default would be to eliminate initially all formats except for PDF if we don't absolutely have to support them. I'll see if we can get some metrics on current ZIM file usage via the Collection extension, but it'd be nice to get qualitative feedback as well. (More background at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/PDF_rendering ) Thanks, Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation

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Kiwix for Android Google Code-in tasks for young and talented developers
by Emmanuel Engelhart 19 Nov '13

19 Nov '13

Hi, Google Code-in program has started yesterday. Kiwix, with other Wikimedia FOSS projects, has proposed a few "small" (few days work) tasks. Our tasks focus on the improvement of the new Kiwix for Android app. Young and talented developers with skills in compilation, Java, Javascript are more than welcome. To have a look to our tasks, click on that link and add "Kiwix" to the "Tags" filter: https://google-melange.appspot.com/gci/tasks/google/gci2013 Feel free to ask me per email our on IRC channel (#kiwix on Freenode) if you have questions or simply need help. 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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