Hello Offline fans,
In 2021, I plan to get a Spanish version of WikiFundi created with the
help of Antonio
(u:Tonygarfume)<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tonygarfume>and Kiwix.
Reminder : WikiFundi (1) is a software that provides off-line editing
environment that mimics the Wikipedia environment. WikiFundi allows for
training and contribution when technology, access and electricity
outages fail or are not available at all. It enables individuals, groups
and communities to learn how to edit Wikipedia, and to work on articles
collaboratively. It requires a local server (such as a raspberry
PI)which will provide a local wifi network to which editors may contact.
Once completed and connected to the internet, the articles produced can
be uploaded to Wikipedia.
WikiFundi is primarily disseminated at the moment through the Kiwix
environnement. It is for example used during the WikiChallenge Ecoles
d'Afrique, a writing contest that run in (mostly rural) schools of 8
francophone countries (2)
I am currently looking for interested people to provide any help they
think relevant, with the amount of time and energy they can afford. Any
little help welcome.
If you are interested, please answer me, publicly or privately, and drop
your username signature on the project page (3) so that I can contact you.
Help could be
a) help to develop the content pages of WikiFundi (I am in particular
looking for people super knowledgeable with the our pillars, NPOV and
such, to list and summarize those pages)
b) provide additional educational resources to be put on WikiFundi.
Currently all the resources are either in English or French. Looking for
fresh relevant resources in Spanish to be added
c) beta testing, fixing links, language, typoes, page review with good eyes
d) translate the userguide in Spanish !
e) when the software is ready, helping to relay the info, to communicate
about it (such as writing a blogpost in Spanish about it, or hosting a
post, or hosting a webinar to talk about the software etc.)
f) and using the software in disconnected areas, providing feedback and
telling the story
g) more ?
Please no one be shy.
Florence
(1) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiFundi/en
(2) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiChallenge_Ecoles_d%27Afrique/en)
(3) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiFundi/2021#Interested
(4) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiFundi_Resources
I have tried this and it works pretty well. One thing you didn't mention is
that because, as you said, it uses service workers, the server running
kiwix-serve must support SSL. Otherwise kiwix-serve will not be able to
serve up any zims produced by zimit. This is unfortunate as offline ssl
certificates need to be self signed and that will cause browsers to
complain.
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> Hola,
>
> Since I’m bearded and moderately overweight let me be the one to bring the
> first present for the holiday season and introduce Zimit, a pretty cool new
> tool that allows people to produce their own Zim files. Yes, you read that
> correctly.
>
> * If you are the type that cannot wait to unwrap presents, you will find
> it at https://youzim.it <https://www.youzim.it/>
>
> * For everyone else:
> The interface is pretty minimalist, and that’s part of the message:
> 1. Insert target URL
> 2. Insert email address so we can tell you when your zim is ready
> 3. Download zim file
>
> There is a limit at 1,000 items for each zim because (a) we don’t want to
> DDoS unsuspecting websites with requests; and (ii) also would not be able
> to afford the bill If it becomes as popular as we think it will be (we need
> to find an acceptable business model and pricing structure: any advice
> welcome). But since this is free software, you can obviously cut the
> middleman by copying, studying, modifying and redistributing the code that
> can be found here: https://github.com/openzim/zimit <
> https://github.com/openzim/zimit>
>
> Because this relies on newly-implemented service workers, these new zim
> files will only work on Kiwix-android and Kiwix-serve at the moment, but
> this will obviously expand to other platforms in 2021.
>
> This project was entirely funded by a Mozilla Open Source Support Award,
> thanks to them!
>
> Cheers,
> Stephane
>
Hola,
Since I’m bearded and moderately overweight let me be the one to bring the first present for the holiday season and introduce Zimit, a pretty cool new tool that allows people to produce their own Zim files. Yes, you read that correctly.
* If you are the type that cannot wait to unwrap presents, you will find it at https://youzim.it <https://www.youzim.it/>
* For everyone else:
The interface is pretty minimalist, and that’s part of the message:
1. Insert target URL
2. Insert email address so we can tell you when your zim is ready
3. Download zim file
There is a limit at 1,000 items for each zim because (a) we don’t want to DDoS unsuspecting websites with requests; and (ii) also would not be able to afford the bill If it becomes as popular as we think it will be (we need to find an acceptable business model and pricing structure: any advice welcome). But since this is free software, you can obviously cut the middleman by copying, studying, modifying and redistributing the code that can be found here: https://github.com/openzim/zimit <https://github.com/openzim/zimit>
Because this relies on newly-implemented service workers, these new zim files will only work on Kiwix-android and Kiwix-serve at the moment, but this will obviously expand to other platforms in 2021.
This project was entirely funded by a Mozilla Open Source Support Award, thanks to them!
Cheers,
Stephane
Hi
I'm very proud to announce the release of our new tool: warc2zim.
Warc2zim is a command line tool for GNU/Linux and macOS which allows to
convert a WARC file to a ZIM file. WARC being a widely used storage
format of the archive world, warc2zim offers new opportunities to reuse
WARC stored data and benefit of the whole feature set of the ZIM file
format and readers like Kiwix.
The tool has been achieved with the strong collaboration of the
Webrecorder team. It is one milestone of a bigger project called Zimit,
a project we run we the sponsoring of the Mozilla Foundation.
The ZIM created using that process works slightly differently than the
traditional ones (the ZIM specification is formally respected). We are
currently running an effort to update all the Kiwix readers, but it
already works well with Kiwix Serve.
The tool is distributed at:
https://pypi.org/project/warc2zim/
More news to come about warc2zim and Zimit in January 2020.
Happy scraping!
Happy coding!
Happy offline reading!
Emmanuel
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Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more
* Web: https://kiwix.org/
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline
* Wiki: https://wiki.kiwix.org/
Hello everyone !
This is my privilege to suggest the adoption of a dedicated logo for our
UserGroup :)
We currently operate under the generic wikimedia logo for our UserGroup.
A couple of weeks ago, Stephane told me one of his team members
(user:Schlag88) would possibly have some free time to do a design work.
I thought suggesting a brand new dedicated logo for our UG would be very
welcome and sweet to us.
And there you go ! We have a really well-done proposition in our hands.
Please check it out : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Offline_UG.svg
I am in support of this logo because it carries a meaningful message to
me. Here is what I see in it :
* Low part of the logo is our planet, figuring our World.
* Middle part represent the "disconnection", being offline
* Top part is our worldwide network, connecting people
What do you think ? Do we adopt it ? :)
Flo
Thanks especially to Benjamin Bach in Denmark who made this happen, by
referring the BBC's "People Fixing the World" program to me and others
earlier this summer. Yes this podcast is only 23min, but it took many
months of hard work to pull together!
Huge Thank You to Anish Mangal whose Internet-in-a-Box community action in
remote Northern India truly brought this podcast to life — and to everyone
who pulled together, so that the global public rich and poor listen up —
and wake up to all these many amazing "Offline Internet" initiatives...
All thanks to BBC producer Tim Colls himself, who courageously went far
beyond the usual Technology Solutionism — carefully addressing "Educational
Imperialism" and the ethics of ignoring grassroots community voices — *and
what everyone of us CAN in fact do about this:*
How to put the internet in a box
People Fixing the World <https://pod.link/1177590377>Oct 19, 2020
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszv1s (23min)
*Thanks to Everyone catalyzing these grassroots learning hubs of all kind,
in your own country AND in your own culture!*
In that spirit (how can we *each* help, everyone in *their* our way)
anybody with even the most basic Linux skills should consider trying
out an Internet-in-a-Box
7.2 <https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-7.2-Release-Notes> pre-release
to craft their very own "community learning hotspot." Thereby seeding
exactly such Sneakernet-of-Alexandria "Burnings for Learnings" peoples
networks, in any rural or impoverished community that you can find, that
deserves its own aspirational tools...
- What are the most humane Sneakernets-of-Alexandria currently being
built today, around this planet?
- How should these distant human networks in health clinics / schools
/ prisons / libraries (and in your own home!) tangibly learn from each
other, co-curating to Pay It Forward helping others?
*None of us have all the answers in 2020! But Internet-in-a-Box
<http://internet-in-a-box.org/> is one key piece of this puzzle
and installable on most any Raspberry Pi or PC <http://download.iiab.io/>,
if you too can enable kids/communities and civic networks in your part of
the world. So do write us
<http://internet-in-a-box.org/pages/contributing.html> if you have any
questions about how best to make this possible, so we help each you (and
help each other!) materially help others ~*
Hi everyone,
(Apologies for cross-posting.)
Last month, we shared a survey to inform the planning and funding processes
of Wikipedia 20 anniversary celebrations. The survey results have
demonstrated interest in hosting virtual and in-person events around the
world to celebrate Wikipedia’s 20th birthday.
We are excited to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation will be supporting
individuals and groups planning to hold Wikipedia 20 celebration events
through the Rapid Grants program.
The Rapid Grants program can support event plans with a budget ranging from
500 USD, up to 2,000 USD. All the details, the eligibility criteria, and
the application form are available on the Wikipedia 20 grants meta page. [1]
Applications for Rapid Grants are accepted between the 1st and 15th of each
month, and a decision on the application is, typically, ready by the end of
that month. For applicants who would like to host Wikipedia celebration
events during the month of January 2021, we highly recommend applying as
soon as possible (i.e. during the November 2020 cycle). For later events
through the end of 2021, applications will continue to be open later in the
year.
*Other funding opportunities*
If your plans for the Wikipedia 20 celebration event don’t meet some of the
eligibility criteria for a Rapid Grant (e.g. your budget is expected to
exceed $2000), you may want to consider reducing the scale of your
activities, or to explore other grant opportunities that may better support
your plan:
-
Additional funding for Conference & Event grantees (e.g. for a regional
or thematic conference) who wish to incorporate a celebration event to an
existing conference. [2]
-
Conference & Event Grants to support celebration events for more than
2000 USD. [2]
*Round one applications for Conference & Event grants is now closed.
Details for round two (for events that will be held between July and
December 2021) will be announced on the conference and event grants page.
For more information on Wikipedia 20, please visit the Wikipedia 20 grants
meta page. [1]
Thank you and please share the message with your communities!
On behalf of the Wikipedia 20 team, Samir Elsharbaty
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20/Grants
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference
Samir Elsharbaty (he/him)
Brand Associate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
