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Kiwix for Android released!
by Emmanuel Engelhart 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

Hi, Wikimedia CH has sponsored a long Kiwix Hackathon (and the WMF two tablets) and there is the result, the first version of Kiwix (and also the first ZIM reader) for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile It’s very easy to use: * Download the app from the Google Play Store, and launch it; * Click on the “Open” button, select a ZIM file from the list (from your device or SD card); * That’s it! You’re already browsing offline content. If you don’t already have a ZIM file of Wikipedia, Kiwix leads you to its online repository so you can download one: http://kiwix.org/m/ You can also use any of the Books created on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Book Being a mobile version of a feature-rich desktop software, the Android version is lightweight. It provides access to the most essential features: opening and reading a ZIM file, search with auto-completion on article titles, in-page search, random navigation, zoom in & out. More details in the Wikimedia Blog post: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/17/carry-the-entirety-of-wikipedia-in-yo… Emmanuel

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Kiwix @Hong Kong for Wikimania 2013
by Emmanuel Engelhart 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

Hi Kiwix will be present at Wikimania 2013 in August with two developers. We have a small hackathon before Wikimania and we will of course attend to the two tech days. We have also submitted two presentations: * Kiwix or the 7 ways to go Offline: https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Kiwix_or_the_7_ways_to… * Beyond Afripedia: Mali Experience: https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Beyond_Afripedia:_Mali… Please, put your name to the attendee list if you are interested! During Wikimania itself, we will be on the Wikimedia CH (Switzerland) booth in what should be the first "Chapter village". We hope to see you! Last but not least: Kiwix/Afripedia is also nominated to the Bobs2013 in Germany for the "best innovation in online activism". If you have a Twitter account, give us your vote! https://thebobs.com/francais/category/2013/best-innovation-2013/#n3483 More news about Kiwix on Twitter and Facebook: * https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * https://www.facebook.com/KiwixOffline Regards Emmanuel

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[xowa] v0.4.0 released
by gnosygnu 03 Apr '13

03 Apr '13

xowa is a new, open-source, offline wiki application. It imports directly from the Wikimedia data dumps, and shows articles in an HTML browser window. It can also download and display images. v0.4.0 is a general rollup release. It is meant to be stable. These are the changes since the last announcment (v0.3.0): * Scribunto/Lua support (approximate 80% implementation) * Wikidata Phase 1 support (interwiki language links) * Timeline (contributed by Schnark) * Options page improvements * Wiki list in the sidebar The files are here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xowa/files/v0.4.0/ As always, any feedback is appreciated. Thanks.

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I am the developer of XOWA: a new open-source app that reads Wikipedia offline. I'm looking for some feedback/help
by gnosygnu 12 Mar '13

12 Mar '13

I'm hoping this forum is a proper place for this message. My apologies if it is not. XOWA is a new open-source offline Wikipedia app which I wrote in my spare time over the past 20 months. You can view screenshots here ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/xowa ) or here ( http://imgur.com/a/OydBK/layout/blog ). Its notable features are: * It is a full-fledged offline HTML reader for English Wikipedia (or any other Wikimedia Foundation wiki) * It works directly against the data-dump files (such as those at http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html) * It downloads images from Wikimedia on demand (or locally from a Wikimedia image tarball at http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/wikimedia/imagedumps/tarballs/fulls/20130101/) * It can edit offline articles (to update content, correct vandalism or just to experiment) * It navigates between offline wikis (Click on "Look up this word in Wiktionary" and it will open your offline version of Wiktionary) I'm posting here because I'm looking for feedback. So far, I have a few good users, and one exceptional user from German Wikipedia (Schnark: who added MathJax and sortable/collapsible tables). I'm currently looking for others who will try offline images, test English Wikipedia, or review wikis in other languages. The most recent version of XOWA is contained in one zip file. It takes one click and about 3 minutes to download Simple Wikipedia for offline use. XOWA also has a page that lists 596 other wikis that can be set up with one click. English Wikipedia is the largest and it will take between 4 and 5 hours, but most of that time is to download and unzip the 9 GB .bz2 file. If you're interested and have some time, please give XOWA a try. I post Windows-specific instructions below. XOWA also works on Linux (and possibly Mac OS X), so if you want to run on that OS, the instructions are similar except you will need to run "java -jar xowa_linux.jar" or "java -d32 -DstartOnFirstThread -jar xowa_macosx.jar" If you have questions or comments or problems, please post and I will reply. Thanks for your attention. ------------ Instructions ------------ Requirements: * 1 GB free space: XOWA (5 MB) + XUL Runner (32 MB) + Simple Wikipedia (500 MB) + ImageMagick/Inkscape (400 MB) * Windows XP or higher * Java 1.6 or Java 1.7. If Java is not installed on your machine, you can get it from http://www.java.com/en/download Steps * Download xowa_app_windows_v0.2.2.0.zip from http://sourceforge.net/projects/xowa/files/v0.2.2 * Unzip the file to C:\xowa. When you are done, you should have a file called C:\xowa\xowa.exe as well as many other files and directories * Double-click C:\xowa\xowa.exe. The app should launch and the XOWA Main Page should load. * Click the link for "Set up Simple Wikipedia". Wait about 3 minutes for the wiki to download and install. When it is finished, it will open Simple Wikipedia * Browse Simple Wikipedia. When you are done, click on the Main Page link under XOWA in the left hand navigation bar. * Click the link for "Set up images (Windows)". Wait about 3 minutes for the image programs to install. * Click on Page history on the left hand nav * Select Main_Page for simple.wikipedia.org. Images will now download automatically for any page you visit. Here are some example pages to visit (you can copy and paste these into the address bar): "simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/World History", "simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess", "simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic architecture", "simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn (planet)" * If you want to try other wikis, click on "list of data dumps" on the XOWA Main Page

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Bug 28706 - Allow post-parsed documents to be available offline and saved into IndexedDB and made queryable
by Quim Gil 09 Mar '13

09 Mar '13

Offline experts: ;) Could you help evaluating this enhancement request filed against MediaWiki code? Please comment in the report itself. Bug 28706 - Allow post-parsed documents to be available offline and saved into IndexedDB and made queryable https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28706 Thank you. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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[xowa] v0.3.0 released
by gnosygnu 06 Mar '13

06 Mar '13

xowa is a new open-source, offline wiki application. Among other features, it imports directly from the Wikimedia data dumps. v0.3.0 is a general rollup release. It is meant to be stable. These are the changes since the last announcment (v0.2.2): * A new UI including image buttons/right-click menu * Better support for Wikisource (lst and pages extension) * A basic version of Special:Allpages * Wiki-specific sidebars * Reference tooltips * An options page for configuring font-size * A Mac OS X package * Several parser fixes A screenshot of the latest version is here: http://i.imgur.com/WJRUHTu.png The files are here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xowa/files/v0.3.0/ As always, any feedback is appreciated. Thanks.

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[Kiwix Promotional Video] We need your story!
by Emmanuel Engelhart 04 Mar '13

04 Mar '13

Hi Kiwix and the Wikimedia Foundation are engaged in the creation of a promotional video for Wikipedia offline. In a first time, we are looking for personal and inspiring stories about how offline Wikipedia affects people. You have maybe one anecdotes or story to tell us? This doesn't need to be long. If you have pictures, this is even better. The stories should be sent to stories(a)wikimedia.org I hope you can find a few minutes for helping us to create this video. Thank you! Emmanuel

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[PROPOSAL] Small improvement of the ZIM language metadata
by Emmanuel Engelhart 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Hi, I have published a few weeks ago a first bilingual ZIM file. http://download.kiwix.org/zim/other/mullah_piaz_digest.zim By allowing only one language in its metadata, the ZIM format is not adapted for that. See the definition: http://www.openzim.org/index.php/Metadata I propose to allow to give many languages (separated by a colon) codes in the ZIM "Language" Metadata. For a ZIM file in English and Farsi, this would give us: eng,par Remarks? Question? Regards Emmanuel

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Fwd: Repository distribution
by Jessie Wild 27 Feb '13

27 Feb '13

Hello all - RACHEL[1], a project of World Possible focused on getting open courseware and educational materials into remote areas via an offline repository, is updating their materials and is hoping to get an updated version of offline English Wikipedia. Has there been any advancement in this by the Wikipedia 1.0 team? I haven't heard for awhile, so am not sure how to respond to the below request from Noberto! FYI, here is a cool video of a class using Wikipedia via the RACHEL repository: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsiJH64zEe4&lr=1 Thanks and hope all are well - Jessie [1] http://worldpossible.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Norberto Mujica <World Possible> <norberto(a)worldpossible.org> Date: Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:35 PM Subject: Re: Repository distribution To: Jessie Wild <jwild(a)wikimedia.org> Hi Jessie Hope you are doing great. I was releasing 2 new versions of RACHEL this past weekend, and I was wondering if there is a new version of Wikipedia offline, like 3 years old we have in our RACHEL repository. How is your project doing? Cheers Norberto -- *Jessie Wild Learning & Evaluation * *Wikimedia Foundation* * * Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Donate to Wikimedia <https://donate.wikimedia.org/>

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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Grants available for anti-surveillance/anti-censorship design & other tech work
by Emmanuel Engelhart 20 Feb '13

20 Feb '13

Dear Developers I have heard about this funding opportunity at the OpenITP (Thx Sumana). See Email below. At Kiwix, we think the spreading of content should be as much as possible decentralized... for technical and political reasons. Our current setup is based on Metalink and HTTP protocols, but the solutions we use (Mirrorbrain/aria2) are ready to deal with P2P using Bittorrent (also decentralized). This just need a little bit work to get it running. This work is more than ever before essential for Kiwix: we start to have pretty serious amount of data transfers and bandwidth constraints/costs are increasing dangerously. In addition, the way we spread the content catalog (the list of ZIM files available to download) is still really centralized and we also search a way to allow people to exchange this list in an ad-hoc P2P manner. We think that all together this could made a really interesting topic for an OpenITP grant proposal. If a C++ developer is motivated by that topic I'm ready to help him getting that grant request done. Kind regards Emmanuel -------- Message original -------- Sujet: [Wikitech-l] Grants available for anti-surveillance/anti-censorship design & other tech work Date : Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:39:35 -0500 De : Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org> Répondre à : Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Organisation : Wikimedia Foundation Pour : Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "A list for the design team." <design(a)lists.wikimedia.org> http://openitp.org/?q=openitp_first_round_of_2013_project_funding_now_open_… OpenITP's first round of 2013 project funding is now open for proposals! Deadline: 31 March 2013 "OpenITP project grants are meant to support specific technical efforts to improve users' ability to circumvent censorship and surveillance on the Internet. "Technical" doesn't have to mean software or hardware -- for example, we also consider efforts to improve user experience through translation, testing, projects to improve documentation, meetings that get developers together in person to solve specific problems, etc. The main thing we're looking for is that your proposed project is finite (e.g. has a deadline, is scoped) and contributes to OpenITP's core mission of enabling freedom of communication on the Internet. We're interested in all good proposals, but note we're especially receptive to proposals that improve user experience (UX) and in translation (of both software and documentation). Don't take that as a filter, though: if you have a good proposal that's not about UX or translation, we still want to receive it. While our grants don't have a hard limit, they tend to be in the $5k-$30k USD range: enough to fund a specific piece of work, or to provide seed funding for a new idea, but not enough to be a primary long-term funding source. Therefore we try not to burden applicants with a lot of bureaucratic overhead and paperwork to apply for a grant. It's enough to send us a brief description of what you have in mind, and point to public URLs for further details. Since we only fund open source work, we expect that most proposals we receive will already have been discussed in publicly-archived forums anyway, and perhaps written up on a public web page -- though there may be exceptions, such as projects that are becoming open source but aren't all the way there yet. In any case, we're comfortable clicking on links and reading stuff on the Web. You're not required to package everything up in one PDF to make a proposal. Just tell us what you want to do, make it easy for us to find what we need to find, and we'll take it from there. We'll ask you questions as we have them." The page also includes examples of things OpenITP funded in their last round. Please take a look! It would be *amazing* if someone could use this opportunity to help people read and contribute to Wikimedia safely. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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