Hi
We met with Renaud during one week in Lyon, France to work together on
Kiwix. This was extremely efficient, we fixed a lots of bugs/feature
requests and took many decisions concerning the further development of
Kiwix.
Here is the wiki page:
http://ur1.ca/9qzbs
We think this type of hackathon, like the informal one we had last year
in Haifa, Israel is pretty valuable. We have the wish to organize one
running on the same principles next year... maybe with more people and a
little bit broader focus (offline meeting, people integrating Kiwix,
openZIM, ...). In any case we still want to keep the concept of "planned
hackathon", with list of tasks to do. So more a working week with people
already involved in the offline than an open hackathon like we know them.
Regards
Emmanuel
Hi,
we have finished a first version of the kiwix-plug scripts. As a
reminder, a kiwix-plug is a plug computer offering a wifi hotspot to
surf on Wikipedia without Internet access.
This scripts are developed in the Afripedia scrope, a project managed by
Wikimedia France. If you already have a dreamplug, this will take you
only a few minutes to transform it in a kiwix-plug. Everything is
explained there:
http://kiwix.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/kiwix/plug/README
Your feedbacks, bug reports and feature requests, are welcome
Regards
Emmanuel
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Salut
nous publions une première version des scripts permettant de préparer un
kiwix-plug. Pour rappel, un kiwix-plug est un plug computer offrant un
hotspot wifi permettant de surfer sans accès à internet à Wikipédia (et
in fine à n'importe quel fichier ZIM).
Ces scripts sont développés dans le cadre du projet Afripedia de
Wikimédia France.
Tout est expliqué ici (en anglais) :
http://kiwix.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/kiwix/plug/README
Si vous avez déjà un dreamplug, cela ne vous prendra que quelques
minutes pour le reconfigurer en kiwix-plug.
Tous les retours sont le bienvenu.
Emmanuel
Hello offliners!
Are there people who will be at Wikimania who would be interested in
meeting up to discuss Offline strategy? It appears there are perhaps just
three of us on the offline project pages[1]. If there is a bigger group, it
would be great to set aside some time during the Hackathon to talk more
specifically about what progress we would like to see in Offline WIkipedia
going into the future.
Otherwise, it appears Manuel's submission got selected, and we have some
time during Wikimania itself[2]! Since this session is only an hour,
though, it seems like all the time will be spent reporting what the
different activities going on around the world are - which is much needed,
but a slightly different purpose.
What do people think? Will anyone be around?
Jessie
[1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Volunteer_Page/2012_offline…
[2]
http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Offline_Workshop#Intere…
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Hi all,
I am wondering whether you could give me some tips to find an
appropriate solution for our scenario! We have got a small amount of
resources to throw at this, and can hopefully develop something that
will be useful for others.
We have a wiki here:
http://orbit.educ.cam.ac.uk/
which has a small number of pages (by comparison!), but it does contain video.
We would like to be able to create offline (read-only) copy of this.
This is because some of it is aimed at teacher education in Africa,
where connectivity it poor. At one of the schools we work with we have
a low-power server, with a local wifi network, so basically we'd like
to get an offline copy onto that server. Html is probably the best
solution (as it could then be indexed for searching on our server),
and we want to be able to generate an update fairly frequently (over
low bandwidht) so updates need to be incremental.
One approach I've taken in the past was this: pull html versions of
pages via the API (and doing regexp on them, e.g. to preserve local
links between pages, but leave links for editing pointing at the
online version). This could be a good solution, but it requires
creating of a static html version on the server, that's then
periodically updates. It also requires a lot of hacky regexp to get
the pulled html into the right format. It would be good to have
something in the API that could output pages straight as a 'localised'
html format. Another issue was that the API doesn't easily allow
finding the most recent version of all pages that have changes since a
certain date, so I had to mess around with the OAI extension to get
this information. Overall, I got it to work, but it relied on so many
hacks that it wasn't really maintanable.
What would be ideal would be to have a local script (i.e. on the
remote server) managing this, without us having to create an
(intermediary) html copy ever so often. The remote server contacts our
wiki when it has connectivity, and fetches updates at night. The only
thing the wiki does is produce a list pages that have changed since a
certain date, and (via the API) provides suitable html for download. I
should say that massive scalability isn't an issue: We won't have
loads of pages any time soon, and we won't have lots of mirror sites.
Once we've got an html version (i.e. wiki -> local html), we'd also
like to build a little app for Android, that can download such an html
copy (again, ideally straight from a wiki, without intermediary html
copy somewhere). The app would manage downloading the updates, keep
content as html on the SD card, and would allow users to launch the SD
card content (into a mobile browser). (We'd need to take care of how
to hand video, probably use HTML5 video tags.)
I would really appreciate your feedback on this! The above strategy
(modify the API to give localised html) seems simple enough to me - do
you have particular views on what could work best?
Bjoern
(Btw. I am also interested in ePub, but that's a different scenario!)
Renaud will speak there about his experience as a wikipedian, Kiwix
developer and open source evangelist...
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Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Wikimedia at Open Source Bridge conference,
late June, Portland
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 06:36:58 -0400
From: Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org>
Reply-To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
<wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Organization: Wikimedia Foundation
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, sstierch(a)wikimedia.org, Wikitext-l
<wikitext-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
June 26-29, a bunch of us will be in Portland, Oregon, USA for the Open
Source Bridge conference.
http://opensourcebridge.org/events/2012/schedule
WMF is sponsoring the Friday unconference day, and will host a hacking
table that day as well as (I hope) the Tuesday "Hacker Lounge
Project/Community Night."
Wikimedians are giving several talks during OSBridge:
"Identity, Reputation and Gratitude: Designing for a community" by
Brandon Harris: Tuesday, 1:30
"A snapshot of Open Source in West Africa" by Renaud Gaudin:
Tuesday, 3:45
"Building A Visual Editor for Wikipedia" by Roan Kattouw and Trevor
Parscal: Tuesday, 4:45
"Internationalization @Wikipedia: Helping add the next billion web
users" by Alolita Sharma: Wednesday, 10am
"Why you need to host 100 new wikis just for yourself." by Ward
Cunningham: Wednesday, 2:30
"Outreach Events: My Triumphs, My Mistakes" by Asheesh Laroia and
me: Thursday, 3:45
I give the opening keynote address on Tuesday morning. My tentative
title: "Be Bold."
If you're in or near Portland and want to come, let me know; I might be
able to hook you up with a free conference pass.
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Hi,
I just wanted to inquire: is the WMF aware of Worldreader? (http://www.worldreader.org/) I think they are an organization worth reaching out to for a potential partnership.
SincerelyAbbas.
Dear all,
thanks to the WMF ops team who helped us consolidating the offline lists:
dev-l(a)openzim.org, a low-volume list of openZIM developers has been
merged with offline-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, a low-volume list of general
offline-related talk of Wikimedia.
Most announcements have been cross-posted between both lists anyway in
the past. The list archives have been merged as well and can be found
here now:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/offline-l/
While openZIM started as a stand-alone project run by enthusiastic
Wikimedians it became an integral part of the Wikimedia Offline projects
in the meantime. This merge is another step in focusing efforts and
build a common infrastructure.
Regards,
Manuel
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Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge
www.wikimedia.ch
Wikipedia Zero is starting to get more attention recently. We could
use set of funny / beautiful / amazing images of it in use, and a
compelling overview page to send people to that mentions how to can
spread the word / get their local distributors or politicians or
schools on board.
Then we should run a little viral publicity campaign. It's really a
very sexy project. We could frame it as something universal: "free
access to Wikipedia on all mobile devices and networks."
This seems to be the main project page for now, so I've been
encouraging people to link to it in their posts.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero
SJ
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