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Kiwix 0.9 beta5 is out!
by Emmanuel Engelhart 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

Hi We have released a new beta of the 0.9 branch. This beta fixes mainly many issues related to Windows, especially with Windows7. Here the complete CHANGELOG fromhttp://changelog.kiwix.org: * FIXED: letton language menu item (ID: 3439113) * FIXED: Duplicates in publisher& language filters in the content manager (ID: 3439108) * FIXED: Many localisation files which were broken due to a buggy script (ID: 3440627) * FIXED: Wrong behaviour in case of two different portable kiwix consecutive runs (ID: 3442083) * FIXED: Different issues relative to ISO language codes (ID: 3439293) * FIXED: On Windows, Media Defender complain about chp.exe (ID: 3389953) * FIXED: Rendering issue when displaying two notifications consecutivly: only the last one was displayed. * FIXED: Windows default install directory (to match standarts) * FIXED: Missing Kiwix shortcuts menu entry on Win7 Application menu (ID: 3456428) * FIXED: Buggy permission eskalation in Windows 7 installer (ID: 3442074) * FIXED: Buggy behaviour if you close the last tab (ID: 3459365) * FIXED: Double-checked menu items in language/skin menus in case of abandoned restart process * FIXED: Few UI bugs related to the navigation history management (ID: 3444677) * FIXED: Regression impacting reading of splitted big (more than 4GB) ZIM files (ID: 3463001) * NEW: New supported user interface languages: Czech (cs), Upper Sorbian (hsb), Cyrillic Tatar (tt-cyrl), Lower Sorbian (dsb), Hindi (hi), Gujarati (gu), Tamil (ta), Georgian (ka), Estonian (et), Bulgarian (bg), Lithuanian (lt), Oriya (or), Slovak (sk) * NEW: Switch off automatically library if loading random article * NEW: In the library, pressing<ENTER> in your local library directly open the file * NEW: Greying "Load random article" menu entry if no content is loaded (ID: 3439112) * NEW: Add the support of the "publisher" ZIM Metadata * NEW: Improved library menus rendering (ID: 3439109) * NEW: Improved code and documentation of kiwix-manage * NEW: In library, option to keep ZIM file during content deletion (ID: 3442084) * NEW: "Copy Link Address" in contextual menu for external links (ID: 3444066) * NEW: Security code to avoid "displaying" main window outside the screen (ID: 3415334) * NEW: "First" and "Last" arrows in the search result page (ID: 3442313) * NEW: Download ZIM files directly from HTTP - without using metalink (ID: 3450237) * NEW: Ctrl+ modifier to Home, Back and Forward buttons to branch to new tabs (ID: 3459481) * NEW: Windows installer Silent Mode (with command line option /S) * NEW: Improved Windows User Interface (by tunning the CSS) * NEW: Port of console tools kiwix-index, kiwix-manage and kiwix-install for Windows Please test as much as possible the following points: * Windows installer with non-admin users permissions * Kiwix on Windows7 and Vista * New console tools on Windows Download: * Kiwix at https://sourceforge.net/projects/kiwix/files/0.9_beta5/ * Content at http://www.kiwix.org Report bugs and request features at: *http://reportabug.kiwix.org *http://requestafeature.kiwix.org Stay tune at: *http://identi.ca/group/kiwix *http://planet.kiwix.org *http://blog.kiwix.org Regards Emmanuel Engelhart

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Re: [Offline-l] [Wikitech-l] Quick Mumbai hackathon followup
by Emmanuel Engelhart 06 Dec '11

06 Dec '11

On 30/11/2011 04:28, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > I'm asking Emmanuel to send an offline-related summary to > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l . The Hackathon was this time more open than for example in Berlin, so we had the visit of many people which mostly were at the same time really interested in technical details but without mostly knowing so much about the current technological context. During two days a small team was in a separate room to speak, work and exchange about offline, in particular Kiwix: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Offline_room_-_Hackathon_Mumbai_201… Our focus was mainly on two things: * Having achievements. After introducing Translatewiki and explaining how it works, each attendee started to translate (or improve the translation) of Kiwix in his Indian languages and we achieved consequently to get Kiwix localised in 4 additional Indian languages. * Trying to get more hackers involved in offline stuff. A big part of Sunday was used to explain how works Kiwix, what are the technologies behind and how to setup a compilation environment. This was not so easy to have a really interactive session as many of the audience did not have a GNU/Linux (Windows domination), and the bandwidth was to limited to start downloading ISOs & VMs (and I had not that stuff by me). Hope to see one or two members of this team joining the Kiwix dev. team and starting hacking the code in the next weeks. Many of them already joined the Kiwix dev. Mailing list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kiwix-developer Emmanuel

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Gmane
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 05 Dec '11

05 Dec '11

A quick note that, thanks to the sysadmins/listadmins and Gmane admins, this list has just been added to Gmane and should appear in their listings when this message is sent, with archives imported (if not, they will be very soon). See http://gmane.org/about.php and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Overview for info on Gmane and Wikimedia lists, and please add/update yours if missing. Sorry for crossposting. Nemo

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Category on Wikimedia Commons
by Jessie Wild 02 Dec '11

02 Dec '11

Hello all you offline aficionados - Since so many of the images (and media) in the Offline Wikipedia are dispersed throughout the vast realms of the Wikimedia Commons, I created a high-level category in which we can collect and track all media relating to the Offline Wikipedia Projects. This comprehensive, high-level Category for Wikipedia Offline on Wikimedia Commons: Category:Wikipedia Offline Projects ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Offline_Projects). I added some images and did a few searches to pull in some of the relevant categories which have already been created. If you have unclassified images or have previously created categories which could be pulled into this, please be sure to add them! Thanks so much for your help - Jessie -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation *

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[openZIM dev-l] "Creator" vs "Publisher" Metadata: improvement proposition
by Emmanuel Engelhart 17 Nov '11

17 Nov '11

Hi It seems to me that we should make a small improvement in the Metadata definitions. We have currently the metadata "creator" which is defined as "creator of the ZIM file" with as example "English speaking Wikipedia contributors" and no "publisher" metadata at all. This is IMO too few and confusing (definition does not match the example). I propose to make following changes: * Introduce the Metadata Publisher (available in the Dublin core http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/) with the definition "creator of the ZIM file" and as example ("user foobar") * Modify the definition of "creator" to "creator(s) of the ZIM file content" and no change to the example. What do you mean about that? Regards Emmanuel

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Kiwix 0.9 beta4 is out!
by Emmanuel Engelhart 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

Hi We have released a new beta of the 0.9 branch. This beta fixes mainly a freeze problem with Windows7 and introduces filter/sort feature in the library. Here the complete CHANGELOG from http://changelog.kiwix.org : * Fix regression, menu "last open" where not working anymore * Fix regression, avoid restarting aria2 at program exit * New content manager search/filter feature (ID: 3390515) * Newly able to deal with more than one XML library feed * Fixed missing link on feedback notification on OSX no growl (ID: 3419105) * Better kiwix-serve default loading if no welcome page is defined in ZIM (ID: 3417227) * Fixed Freezes on Windows 7 (ID: 3422838) * First version of kiwix-install This version also introduces kiwix-install: a binary to easily build Kiwix portable versions. You may test it if you use the Ubuntu packages or compile yourself from the source code. More documentation and ports will be soon available. As a first result, we provide pre-indexed ZIM content directly packaged with Kiwix for Windows... which is perfect to put on a USB stick for example... Have a look too http://www.kiwix.org to know more. Please test as much as possible the following points: * sort/filter feature in the library * Kiwix on Windows7 and Vista * New feedback system introduced with beta3 * kiwix-install (if you can) We still want to start the release candidate cycle ASAP but will try to avoid xulrunner-dev dependences for the compilation (necessary to get package of Ubuntu oneiric and further) and improve aria2 process mgmt before (important for Windows users). Next release (probably a beta5) will be out in around 4 weeks. Download: * Kiwix at https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?group_id=175508 * Content at http://www.kiwix.org Report bugs and request features at: * http://reportabug.kiwix.org * http://requestafeature.kiwix.org Stay tune at: * http://identi.ca/group/kiwix * http://planet.kiwix.org * http://blog.kiwix.org Regards Emmanuel Engelhart

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OPDS (Open Publication Distribution System)
by Emmanuel Engelhart 06 Nov '11

06 Nov '11

Hi I discovered today OPDS (Open Publication Distribution System) which is a XML feed norm to spread e-books catalogs. You may get more information at: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/OPDS This seems to be pretty new but looks to be an interesting initiative. I developed a straightforward XML feed for Kiwix content manager; this works but using standards is often a better approach than re-inventing the wheel (no idea why exactly I did not heard about that at the time I was working on my own XML feed system). Does someone have information/know-how/feedback about OPDS? Regards Emmanuel

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Scholarships Available to attend WikiConference India 2011 in Mumbai, India‏
by Pranav Curumsey 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

**Please Cross Post this on your Country List. This has been Cross Posted on various mailing lists so apologies if you have received it more than once** Hiya, We are please to announce that WMF has granted a few scholarships (maximum of 5) for persons outside of India to attend WikiConference India 2011 (WCI 2011 - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011 ). WCI 2011 will take place in Mumbai, India between 18-20 November 2011. WCI 2011 is the first conference of its kind being held in India and is intended to become an annual national flagship event for Wikipedia/Wikimedia in the country. It is meant to provide a common platform for all Indian Wikimedians to meet and share their views, discuss challenges and exchange useful tips, best practices and other information. Anyone residing outside of India is eligible to apply, but since this is an India specific conference they would need to demonstrate how by being present at the conference they can help the movement in India or improvement of indic languages. It is also necessary that those receiving the scholarship present something at WCI 2011. The scholarships will cover Travel to and Fro Mumbai (economy), Accommodation (similar to what is being offered to Indian Scholars) and Visa fees (if you need one). Please do make your application as strong as possible given that there are few scholarships and we expect a huge number of applications: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011/Call_for_Participa… Kindly note given that there is less than a month to go and that Visa applications etc. will take time, we have set an application deadline of 23:59 IST on Saturday 22nd October 2011. Only applications received before the deadline will be considered. Looking forward to hosting five of you at WCI 2011! -- Kind Regards, Pranav Curumsey Chairperson - Organising Committee WikiConference India 2011

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Re: [openZIM dev-l] [Wikitech-l] Phonegap and Wikimedia mobile apps
by Emmanuel Engelhart 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

On 24/09/2011 14:24, Christian Pühringer wrote: > The JAVA liblzma performance is pretty bad: To increase efficiency of > compression in the zim-format articles (and also all > other data like images) are stored in clusters. Cluster size is apparently about > 1 MB. This implies that loading an article > which is stored at the end of a cluster involves decompressing the complete > cluster. Images should not be compressed in ZIM files for the obvious reasons they mainly are already compressed. This is the case for all ZIM files I made. As far as I know this is also the case for Mediawiki:Collection build ZIM files. Emmanuel

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Kiwix 0.9 beta3 is out!
by Emmanuel Engelhart 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

Hi Almost two months after the beta2, we finally released the 0.9 beta3. This version fixes many bugs and improves the overall usability ; we especially fixed two critical bugs impacting Windows, finished the file association (special icons for ZIM files) on Linux and Windows. Noticeable is also the new 50 UI supported languages thank to the big work done by the Translatewiki community of translators. You may find the detailed CHANGELOG here: http://changelog.kiwix.org At the same time, thank to the financial project of Wikimedia CH: * A first version for Sugar (used by OLPC XO) was prepared. We still need feedback to detect and fix last issues: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4483 * A static version of Kiwix for GNU/Linux x86_32. We also need your feedbacks here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kiwix/files/kiwix-0.9-beta3-linux.tar.bz2/d… ... More information about the "Black&White" project: http://www.kiwix.org/index.php/Black%26White_Project Next release is planned for the middle of November and should still include usability improvements thank to the continuous support of the WMF. We want to finally release 0.9 before the end of the year, so this will certainly be also the first release candidate (so no new feature inclusion any more). Follow us: http://identi.ca/group/kiwix Regards Emmanuel

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