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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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[KIWIX] A few good news for February!
by Emmanuel Engelhart 09 Feb '13

09 Feb '13

Hi, The February month starts with two good news for Kiwix and Wikipedia offline in general: * For the first time we have had 100.000 downloads a month of Kiwix. * Kiwix was elected "Project of the Month" at Sourceforge, and published an interview of myself http://sourceforge.net/blog/potm-201302/ Kind regards Emmanuel

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Name collision between openZIM and zim-wiki
by Emmanuel Engelhart 14 Jan '13

14 Jan '13

Hi, We have a name collision between our project openZIM and an other project called Zim-wiki: * Zim-wiki (http://zim-wiki.org/), a local wiki solution * openZIM (http://www.openzim.org), a file format to store offline web content Zim-wiki is a little bit older than openZIM, so it seems to be "our fault". Although this problem is not new, this starts to be a real problem. For example for Debian which currently tries to package our zimlib: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=698111 I would propose the name the package like "libopenzim", but this is more a workaround than a real solution. You have maybe more ideas about how to fix this issue? Kind regards Emmanuel

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Javascript ZIM reader?
by Douglas Crosher 04 Jan '13

04 Jan '13

Hi, Has anyone considered a pure Javascript ZIM file reader and Wikipedia reader? I have made a small start, writing some hack code to open a ZIM file and it gets to the point of needing to uncompress a cluster. A start has been made on the needed XZ decompress code but it's not done yet. If practical then this could provide a portable offline reader that could suit any device with a modern web browser, and provide a reader for Android tablets, and Firefox OS, etc. Perhaps even node.js servers. If someone has already tried this and found the performance to be too poor then please let me know? Btw: has adding thumbnail image support to the ZIM file format been considered? This would be very handy for a ZIM file selector in a tablet or phone UI. Regards Douglas Crosher

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70.000 Kiwix downloads in December 2012!
by Emmanuel Engelhart 04 Jan '13

04 Jan '13

Hi We have reached a new peak in our audience last month! We delivered 70.000 copies of Kiwix from our Website: * 40.000 "nacked" tarballs * 30.000 bundles (with a Wikipedia ZIM file) A few Wikipedia communities put notices and this really helped to advert Wikipedia Offline. We also received thousands of user feedbacks telling us and thanking us for helping them having an encyclopedia although they do not (always) have access to internet. If you have ideas to help us spreading Wikipedia offline, feel free to implement them. Your help is really welcome. Kind regards Emmanuel

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Request for technical help with English Wikipedia release Version 0.9
by Martin A. Walker 31 Dec '12

31 Dec '12

Dear all, Thanks to Emmanuel and others for their work in making Kiwix even better! We need to work on updating content, as suggested here: http://sourceforge.net/p/kiwix/feature-requests/479/ I would really like to work on preparing our next release of the English Wikipedia (called Version 0.9), but I need some technical help in preparing the collection. User:CBM has done this in the past, but he is unable to do this now. Can anyone here help out? I believe that some knowledge of Perl and the WP:1.0 bot may be needed. CBM has offered to help in teaching a new person. Many thanks, Martin (User:Walkerma) Martin A. Walker Department of Chemistry SUNY College at Potsdam Potsdam, NY 13676 USA +1 (315) 267-2271

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