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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* Web: http://www.kiwix.org
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline
* more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication
Google Code-In is a contest to introduce pre-university students (ages
13-17) to the many kinds of contributions that make open source software
development possible. Students must complete tasks, one at a time. The
Google Code-in 2013 contest runs from November 18, 2013 to January 6, 2014.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-In
Do you have small tasks sitting in your backlogs? For instance (and
pointing to the Kiwix project), we have been told that Android
applications is an area where a lot of contributions from skilled
students are almost granted.
What do you think?
We are currently preparing the proposal to apply by Oct 28, next Monday.
If you can add at least 5 tasks to the wiki page linked above then you
will be ready for the next level - if we are one of the organizations
selected on November 1.
If you have questions just ask, here or at the related talk page.
--
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Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
See below regarding the updated Wikipedia for Schools. This is an important
tool for offline use, particularly in schools.
If you have any use cases and want to share a quote or story, please pass
them along to Jamie! I know there are some good ones out there!
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From: Jamie Goodland <jamie.goodland(a)soschildrensvillages.org.uk>
Date: Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:51 AM
Subject: Wikipedia for Schools new version
To:
Hello all
I'm emailing you today because you've expressed interest in Wikipedia for
Schools in the past. Please forgive me if I've already been in touch
individually - I'm emailing to the full mailing list today.
I'm very excited to announce that we've just updated Schools Wikipedia for
2013. The new version is much expanded, containing roughly 6000 articles,
50,000 images and consisting of 26 million words! And although it's still
organised around the UK national curriculum, and still hand-checked for
suitability, it boasts a brand new look which we're really rather proud of.
There are two ways you can access it:
- Browse the online version <http://schools-wikipedia.org/>
- Alternatively, you can download a
copy<http://www.sos-schools.org/wikipedia-for-schools/wikipedia-schools-3.0.0.to…>for
use offline.
You can also find more information about the project, including its purpose
and history, here <http://www.sos-schools.org/wikipedia-for-schools> on our
schools website.
If anyone has anything nice to say - about this version or a previous
edition - that we can quote in press, I'd be really grateful - as much or
as little as you have time for.
Please do pass circulate this email to anyone you feel may benefit. And, of
course, if you have any questions whatsoever, please don't hesitate to
contact me.
Many thanks
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Jamie Goodland
Website Editor
SOS Children
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v0.9.0 is a general release. The files are available here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xowa/files/v0.9.0/
These are the major changes since the last announcement (v0.8.0):
* Firefox Add-on support (courtesy of treck). See [[Help:XOWA viewer]]
* Wiki maintenance page. See [[Help:Wiki_maintenance]]
* Customizable application Menu bar
* Performance improvements for sqlite3
More changes are listed at [[Help:Change_log]].
As always, any feedback is appreciated.
Thanks.
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Subject: [Wikitech-l] OxygenGuide (Wikivoyage offline): Android app
seeking new maintainer
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 16:15:26 -0400
From: Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org>
Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Organization: Wikimedia Foundation
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Emmanuel
Engelhart <emmanuel(a)engelhart.org>, Nicolas Raoul <nicolas.raoul(a)gmail.com>
(I'd love a forward to offline-l and mobile-l.)
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Travellers%27_pub#OxygenGuide_.28…http://code.google.com/p/oxygenguide
"OxygenGuide is Wikivoyage in the form of simple HTML files. No images.
Must-have on your smartphone or travel laptop. Whole world in 90MB.
I created an Android app but haven't much time to maintain/improve it, I
am looking for a new maintainer, anyone interested? It can be a fun
project for someone who is starting to learn Android development, so
don't hesitate :-)
Some help would also be welcome to enhance the algorithm which
transforms Wikivoyage wikicode into simple HTML."
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
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We did it in the past, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/DVD
Kevin Wayne Williams, 06/08/2013 18:52:
> Op 2013/08/06 9:40, Ziyuan Yao schreef:
>> The key point in my original idea is that you make buyers believe that
>> they're not just giving money away, but also getting some "solid
>> value" in
>> return. A Wikipedia DVD is a kind of "solid value".
> More like a complete set of Wikipedia Blu-Rays. I forget the actual byte
> count of Wikipedia these days, but it's well over anything you would
> want to try to store on DVDs.
Not really, a DVD-DL is usually (i.e. for all languages but en) enough
thanks to openZIM's compression techniques; few years ago we didn't even
need that, a normal DVD was enough.
As someone who spent countless hours working on the 2nd edition of the
DVD in Italy around 2009 (which was never born), I'd of course like to
see this done again, but there are a few problems from an economical POV.
1) "You are mad!" Publishing a DVD and hosting an open website are two
entirely different matters. WMIT could earn a 10 years lawsuit for every
single wrong sentence on Wikipedia; this must be handled by professional
publishers.
2) "Not worth it". DVDs are extremely cheap nowadays (printing a few
thousands, a packaged DVD-DL could cost around 0.10 € last time I
checked), but for the same reason they don't sell a high prices and they
don't make an interesting enough income to enter into negotiations with
publishers and distributors. The areas with poor internet that would
benefit from it tend also to have worse distribution.
3) Of course, trademarks. You probably want to stick the Wikipedia logo,
and possibly other Wikimedia projects logos (there's space enough in a
disc for all of them), on your DVD. It was hard enough to negotiate
everything with the WMF a few years back even for an established
chapter; it gets more restrictive month by month, so it would surely be
a nightmare nowadays. It's probably not worth the few cents more (see
previous point), I'd probably end up not using the Wikipedia logo at all
but only my chapter's.
Nemo
v0.8.0 is a general release. The files are available here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xowa/files/v0.8.0/
These are the major changes since the last announcement (v0.7.0):
* Sqlite database is now the default format
* TCP Server support included. See: [[Help:TCP Server]]
* Wikidata enhancements including internationalization for Wikidata
JSON formatter, Special:ItemByTitle, Translate extension, and
Scribunto Wikibase support
* Improved support for Special:RandomRootPage, Special:Random/Author
and Speciale:PaginaCasuale/Autore
* Expanded / customizable context menu
* Wikiquote wikis added to import list. Total number of importable wikis now 663
More changes are listed at [[Help:Change_log]].
As always, any feedback is appreciated.
Thanks.