Hi Emmanual,
Thanks for the message!
> Kiwix-serve is able to serve any ZIM file:
> http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Kiwix-serve
That's great!
>> '''Scenario 3: Use on tablets / phones.''' We would love to have a
> We have Kiwix for Android which is able to open any ZIM file:
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile
Yes - I saw the post about the new version, and it's very exciting.
> We want to develop a version for iOS, but for now there no concrete agenda:
> http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/IOS
This would of course be good to have, but for our scenarios it won't
be needed, as iPhones/iPads are not very common in most places in
Africa. Android devices are far more competitively priced, so if
people have a smart phone or tablet, it's usually Android. (Though in
some places Blackberry is still quite common.)
>> * '''Offline access:''' We'd love to have some advice how we can
> We have a still in dev, but already working solution for ZIM incremental
> update. This should be available for users in a few months. But, as far
> as I can see, you mediawiki is not too big, so the ZIM file shouldn't be
> too big to.
Well, we have a lot of audio and video. Some of it (the
audio/images/files) are wiki uploads, but the video is kept separately
(and YouTube, and on our server, so that it can be mirrored for local
use). Just the uploads, i.e. the 'w/images' directory, alone is 1.2GB
at the moment, so it's pretty substantial. So we might want to 'side
load' the video content, if that makes sense, and would definitely
need incremental updates for 'w/images'. The wiki text is not massive:
the number of articles is about 1,500.
> The real problem is the ZIM file generation. The future solution based
> on Parsoid should allow you (and anyone if your wiki is public) to build
> easily a ZIM file of it. For now we need to fix things on Parsoid and
> Kiwix side before having a perfectly usable solution.
Ok, so the use of Parsoid also means that the html5 generated is used
for the ZIM file, so any <div>s we put in (for boxes) will appear in
the output?
We are using Widgets (e.g. for YouTube), so would this also work with
Kiwix? (By embedding the video from YouTube, same as on our web site?)
> But, if you achieve to get a dev instance of Parsoid working onr your
> wiki, I would be happy to try to build a ZIM file for you:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid
That would be great - many thanks! I'll see what I can do in terms of
getting Parsoid working. We're on a virtual server, that I don't have
su rights for, but I'll see what I can do.
Many thanks,
Bjoern
Hi,
In the last 10 days, we have done two new releases for Android smartphones:
v1.5
* Fix regression in suggestions (impacting non-latin alphabets)
* Speed-up a little bit the "night mode"
* Fix color issue with searchbox (impacting only a few devices)
* Show software version in "options"
* Multiple other small UI improvements
v1.4
* Localization of the menu/buttons/settings
* Mask "Search in text" menu item if necessary
* Buttons re-ordering
* Allow multitouch zoom if zoom button are configured "invisible"
* Add "Random article" button
* Fix buggy open procedure with filenames with "special characters"
* Avoid forcing first letter uppercase in search box
Kiwix for Android continues its progression and has now more than 5.000
active users.
Enjoy:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile
Regards
Emmanuel
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Yannick Guigui, 08/11/2013 14:34:
> @Emmanuel
>
> I'm in Douala
>
> Le vendredi 8 novembre 2013, Yannick Guigui a écrit :
>
> I know kiwix but the webapp that I built uses these tecnologies:
>
> - WebStorage
> When the students are in the wifi area,they can consult all the
> articles by the chrome browser (only Google chrome browser is
> required).When the students after are in their home where there is
> not wifi connection,they can consult all the article that they
> consulted when they were in school by the webapp because the webapp
> recorded all articles consulted.
With Kiwix they can download them locally; if you think it's important
to have many pages exportable at once, it shouldn't be too hard to add
such a feature I suppose.
>
> - Real Time Communication
> Students can tchat in article with other people in order to share
> knowledge and idea inreal time when they are on the wifi area.The
> chat seems like the facebook tchat.
>
> - Webrtc
> Users(educator,professor,students) can also communicate by
> visioconference (only stable on Google chrome) in this webapp.They
> can use this feature to call somebody in the area of the wifi and
> have real time visioconference by their webcam.
>
> I tell it because I know that kiwix is also a browser but I have a
> full power of new feature when I use browsers like Chrome or Firefox
> and that why visioconference is possible via Webrtc technology.The
> webapp is responsive design,and compatible with all OS that can have
> browser.
It's clear that Kiwix doesn't do this :) but you could just use Ekiga or
something with your local server. Just saying.
>
> If I get small images of wikipedia (french and english) my final
> problem will be resolved.I use the mediawiki API to serve the
> webapp.The images that I ask will be put in mediawiki. I don't know
> which solution you can give to me.If the zim format can be
> undecompressed in order to extract images to use in mediawiki,
I don't know if it can. Should be possible, in principle. I don't know
if easier than just downloading the thumbs yourself.
Nemo
> I can
> use this solution.What do you think and what do you propose for my
> mediawiki.
>
> Tank a lot (sorry for my English,I speak french)
>
> Le vendredi 8 novembre 2013, Federico Leva (Nemo) a écrit :
>
> Yannick Guigui, 08/11/2013 12:22:
>
> I'm camerounian I built a webapp whose allows students to
> consult
> wikipedia articles
>
>
> So you don't need the originals, only thumbs.
>
> without internet connectivity,many school accepted
> the application and the application is hosted on a server
> and shared by
> wifi on each school.
>
>
> Nice! It seems you may want to use this existing software
> solution: http://kiwix.org/wiki/Kiwix-__serve
> <http://kiwix.org/wiki/Kiwix-serve>
> That way, you can use the available ZIM files with no need to
> generate or download (and compress) the thumbnails yourself.
> Example: http://www.wikimedia.fr/__afripedia
> <http://www.wikimedia.fr/afripedia>
> Your help developing the software would be very useful and you
> could avoid doing yourself what you don't have the resources
> (bandwidth) to do.
>
> I have all the other dumps of wikipedia articles in
> french and english;but I don't have any image because they
> are too heavy
> for me to be downloaded to my side (3 TB) and I have a low
> bandwidth (40
> ko/s when it's fast).
>
> The webapp works on a browser and i don't know if the zim
> format can be
> undecompressed to get small images (jpeg,png,svg...).
>
>
> Kiwix is a browser, you can save anything you want AFAIK.
>
> Nemo
>
>
> This is the video demo (3min in french) of the webapp
> :https://www.youtube.com/__watch?v=0f-HJhOw1-U
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f-HJhOw1-U>
>
> If I get small images in french and english to download to
> the app,my
> problem will revolved.
>
> Tank a lot Federico
>
>
>
> Le vendredi 8 novembre 2013, Federico Leva (Nemo) a écrit :
>
> Yannick Guigui, 08/11/2013 10:11:
>
> Please I want to get all images of wikipedia frensh
> and English,
> I much
> did it cost to book it on hardisk? In can't
> download it because
> I don't
> have enought bandwidth from my country.
>
>
> What do you need them for?
> Originals would be about 2+1 TB and anyone can download
> and ship
> them for you:
> http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/____wikimedia/imagedumps/__tarballs/__fulls/2…
> <http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/__wikimedia/imagedumps/tarballs/__fulls/20121…>
>
> <http://ftpmirror.your.org/__pub/wikimedia/imagedumps/__tarballs/fulls/20121…
> <http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/wikimedia/imagedumps/tarballs/fulls/20121201/>>
> Otherwise there are the ZIM files with thumbnails
> compressed,
> fr.wiki is 14 GB but en.wiki is not available yet.
> http://download.kiwix.org/zim/____0.9/
> <http://download.kiwix.org/zim/__0.9/>
> <http://download.kiwix.org/__zim/0.9/
> <http://download.kiwix.org/zim/0.9/>>
>
> Nemo
>
Yannick Guigui, 08/11/2013 12:22:
> I'm camerounian I built a webapp whose allows students to consult
> wikipedia articles
So you don't need the originals, only thumbs.
> without internet connectivity,many school accepted
> the application and the application is hosted on a server and shared by
> wifi on each school.
Nice! It seems you may want to use this existing software solution:
http://kiwix.org/wiki/Kiwix-serve
That way, you can use the available ZIM files with no need to generate
or download (and compress) the thumbnails yourself.
Example: http://www.wikimedia.fr/afripedia
Your help developing the software would be very useful and you could
avoid doing yourself what you don't have the resources (bandwidth) to do.
> I have all the other dumps of wikipedia articles in
> french and english;but I don't have any image because they are too heavy
> for me to be downloaded to my side (3 TB) and I have a low bandwidth (40
> ko/s when it's fast).
>
> The webapp works on a browser and i don't know if the zim format can be
> undecompressed to get small images (jpeg,png,svg...).
Kiwix is a browser, you can save anything you want AFAIK.
Nemo
>
> This is the video demo (3min in french) of the webapp
> :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f-HJhOw1-U
>
> If I get small images in french and english to download to the app,my
> problem will revolved.
>
> Tank a lot Federico
>
>
>
> Le vendredi 8 novembre 2013, Federico Leva (Nemo) a écrit :
>
> Yannick Guigui, 08/11/2013 10:11:
>
> Please I want to get all images of wikipedia frensh and English,
> I much
> did it cost to book it on hardisk? In can't download it because
> I don't
> have enought bandwidth from my country.
>
>
> What do you need them for?
> Originals would be about 2+1 TB and anyone can download and ship
> them for you:
> http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/__wikimedia/imagedumps/tarballs/__fulls/20121…
> <http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/wikimedia/imagedumps/tarballs/fulls/20121201/>
> Otherwise there are the ZIM files with thumbnails compressed,
> fr.wiki is 14 GB but en.wiki is not available yet.
> http://download.kiwix.org/zim/__0.9/
> <http://download.kiwix.org/zim/0.9/>
>
> Nemo
>
v0.11.0 is a general release. The files are available here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xowa/files/v0.11.0/
These are the major changes since the last announcement (v0.9.0):
* Offline thumbnails for simplewiki
* Windows 64 bit JRE package
* Search word database for improved search performance.
* Scribunto fixes for English Wiktionary
* Support for 2013-09-10 Wikidata wikis.
* Special:Statistics page.
More changes are listed at [[Help:Change_log]].
As always, any feedback is appreciated.
Thanks.
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Sujet: [HELP NEEDED] Javascript (beginner level) developer for a small
feature request
Date : Wed, 09 Oct 2013 12:47:00 +0200
De : Emmanuel Engelhart <kelson(a)kiwix.org>
Pour : kiwix-developer(a)lists.sourceforge.net
<kiwix-developer(a)lists.sourceforge.net>
Hi,
I would appreciate any help for a small javscript developement:
https://sourceforge.net/p/kiwix/feature-requests/767/
This is a feature request gathering many small improvements which should
be done on http://www.kiwix.org/m/, a download page which is proposed to
Android users to download contents.
Here is the list of improvements:
-- Replace "Kiwix ZIM Contents" and "Content Downloads Filter" with only
one title like "Download content for Kiwix"
-- Remove "Content Type" select box (we don't have enough content for
now to justify such type of filtering)
-- "Language" selectbox should be automatically filled with the list of
languages available at http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Template:ZIMdumps
(first column)
-- "Language" select box entry "Auto-detect" should be removed and
autodetect should be applied at loading base on browser agent language
-- Replace "Download Link" label by "Download method"
-- Replace "Download link" select box by two radio buttons-- Remove
"Filter button", each change on "Download method" or "Language" should
automatically apply the filter and reload the results
-- Block the page during each loading of the result (modal dialog box)
or darken the whole page
-- Make the filtering working for all languages, "Hindi" for example
does not work.
The source code is available at:
https://sourceforge.net/p/kiwix/web/ci/master/tree/mobile-folder/
Any volunteer?
Kind regards
Emmanuel
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