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[KIWIX] Release 3.0.0 of Kiwix JS (with Zstandard support)
by Emmanuel Engelhart 18 Oct '20

18 Oct '20

Hi We just have released version 3.0.0 of Kiwix JS browser extensions for Firefox, Chrome & Edge and Kiwix JS for Windows. You can find the new browser extensions: * Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kiwix/donaljnlmapmngakoipdmehbfci… * Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kiwix-offline/ * Edge: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/kiwix/jlepddlenlljlnnhjin… Kiwix JS 3.0.0 Changelog: * NEW: Add support for reading ZIM archives compressed with the zstandard compression algorithm * UPDATE: Make Privacy Policy publicly accessible We have already started to release Zstandard based ZIM files and this new version is mandatory if you want to enjoy them with Kiwix JS. All our Windows apps based on Kiwix JS have been updated in Microsoft App Store. You can enjoy our apps on all Windows based devices (mobiles, tablets, PC, Xbox, ...): * Wikivoyage: https://www.microsoft.com/fr-ch/p/wikivoyage-by-kiwix/9n5sb90q4jbj * Wikimed: https://www.microsoft.com/fr-ch/p/wikimed/9phjsnp1cz8j * Kiwix: https://www.microsoft.com/fr-ch/p/kiwix-js/9p8slz4j979j Please report any problem. Work continues on our forge at https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-js and https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-js-windows. Regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication

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Rapid Grants for Wikipedia 20 celebration events
by Samir Elsharbaty 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

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/>

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Fwd: Brand Project to pause until March 2021 - Sharing survey report
by Florence Devouard 07 Oct '20

07 Oct '20

For your information Flo -------- Message transféré -------- Sujet : Brand Project to pause until March 2021 - Sharing survey report Date : Tue, 6 Oct 2020 18:34:47 +0200 De : Samir Elsharbaty <selsharbaty(a)wikimedia.org> Dear Affiliate Liaisons, We hope you and your communities are safe and well. We are writing today to share some big updates. 1. The Brand Project will pause until March 2021. On 24 of September Zack McCune and Heather Walls attended the Board meeting and recommended that the Brand Project pauses until March 2021. As referenced in the community open letter, many Wikimedia movement activities, events and key collaborations have been put on hold or restructured due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and we believe this should also include the Brand Project. The Board resolved to pause the project and stated this publicly <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/Sept…>on 30 September. 2. The project’s process will evolve with guidance from a new ad-hoc Board committee During the pause, a small ad-hoc Board committee will be formed to liaise with staff, and develop a process of collaboration and decision-making appropriate for the Movement’s brand. This committee will include Trustees James Heilman, Raju Narisetti, and Shani Evenstein Sigalov. There is also the intention to include a small number of community representatives from affiliates, open letter signatories, emerging communities, and Foundation staff to be designated by the Executive Director. We’ll update you with more details on the committee soon. 3. The naming survey report <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_moveme…>is now available Thank you to everyone who provided feedback. Here is the executive summary: * Affiliates in Asia and Africa agree the most that a Wikipedia-based naming system "will help their affiliate" compared to European and North American affiliates who mostly disagree. * “Network”, “Organization”, “Trust”, and “Wiki” terms were ranked low and should be removed from future naming considerations. “Movement” term was productively associated with humans, progression, the future, and social justice and should be further refined. * No single naming system showed sufficient scoring to be recommended, and a second round of revision is advised (as per original project plan) once the pause has been completed. To learn more about what naming elements should be removed, refined and recombined please view the full report <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brand_Project_Naming_Survey_Feedback_R…>. Thank you for all your participation in the Brand Project so far, we hope you enjoy the pause and we look forward to collaborating with you again next year. Samir and the Brand Project Team Samir Elsharbaty (he/him) Brand Associate Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Kiwix/openZIM is moving to Zstandard compression
by Emmanuel Engelhart 28 Sep '20

28 Sep '20

Hi The ZIM format relies on third party compression algorithms to provide the best user experience. This means, high compression level, quick decompression, high portability, etc. Overtime the ZIM has used gzip, bzip2 and since almost 10 years the lzma2 version of the xz library. Time to time new modern compression algorithms are created and we use to evaluate them to see if this would bring a significant improvement for our users. Usually it would not be worth the effort of switching, but this has been different in the case of Zstandard (zstd). The key advantage is that zstd offers a higher decompression speed for a similar (to lzma) compression ratio. That means articles are displayed even quicker than before and the energy consumption is a lot less. You can read the whole discussion at https://github.com/openzim/libzim/issues/84. The decision of switching from lzma to xz has been made earlier this year and actually most of our Kiwix ports have been able to read zstd based ZIM files since more than a quarter. We are approaching now the end of the transition stage for Kiwix readers and therefore we will soon (during October) start to publish ZIM files using the new compression zstd. For 99% of the users this move will be totally transparent and they should only notice the reading/searching speed-up. For the 1% left a few things have to be considered: * If you can not read a new ZIM file, please update to the latest version of your (Kiwix) reader (this is always a good advice). * For all non Kiwix readers, but still libzim based, these readers should be re-compiled/re-released with the latest libzim. * For users relying on ZIM files but not on the libzim/Kiwix software stack, the software needs to be fixed. We don't plan so far to discontinued the support of lzma compression algorithm even if we discouraged to use it as zstd is simply always better. Older ZIM files are still perfectly readable, and this won't change in the next couple of years. Regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: https://kiwix.org/ * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * Wiki: https://wiki.kiwix.org/

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[Wikipedia 20] Rapid Grant survey
by Samir Elsharbaty 16 Sep '20

16 Sep '20

Hi everyone, (Apologies for cross-posting.) As part of the upcoming celebrations surrounding Wikipedia's 20th birthday[1], the Wikimedia Foundation is publishing a short optional survey[2] that will help us understand the needs of people who would like to host a birthday event. The survey is expected to take three to five minutes to fill in and will remain open until 23:59 UTC on Wednesday, 30 September 2020. Before taking the survey, please review the privacy statement policy[3]. We would also like to announce that the Foundation will be supporting Wikipedia 20 anniversary celebration events through multiple grant programs: * Rapid Grants[4] to support celebration events up to 2000 USD. * Additional funding for Conference & Events grantees (e.g. for a regional or thematic conference) who wish to incorporate a celebration event to an existing conference. * Conference & Event Grants[5] to support celebration events for more than 2000 USD.* *Round one applications for conference & event grants [5] is now open until 28 September 2020. On behalf of the Wikipedia 20 team, Samir Elsharbaty [1] Wikipedia 20 meta page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20 [2] Survey link: https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4GyxYcdRSSM5M8J [3] Privacy statement: https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20_Community_Feedback_Surve… [4] Rapid grants page on meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid [5] Conference grants page on meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference Samir Elsharbaty (he/him) Brand Associate Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Raspberry Pi self-hosting for education/collaborations?
by Željko Blaće 09 Sep '20

09 Sep '20

hi folks - new here... Anyone experienced or interested in running self hosted apps (Wikis & co) offline on Raspberry Pi for open-air outdoor education/ collaborations? What else would you have on the device? Etherpad? Jitsi install? Links would be welcome, especially if with documentation of possible issues :-) Best Z

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Offline : Membership
by Florence Devouard 04 Sep '20

04 Sep '20

Hello I will remind members of this list that our wiki portal is here : * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_offline_wikis Membership page for the UserGroup : * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_offline_wikis (feel free adding yourself if you want to be member of the group) Last, I published our annual report * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Reports Flo

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WM chat
by Michael Graaf 31 Aug '20

31 Aug '20

Hi all, just letting you know that the Foundation is now hosting a Mattermost chat server, which already has a "wiki-offline" channel. See https://chat.wmcloud.org/signup_email Cheers, -- Michael Graaf, M.Phil (UCT) Researcher, Editor & Community Informatics Practitioner Mob +27795487242 WhatsApp +27647754342 ORCID 0000-0002-1951-5739

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[KIWIX][GUTENBERG] 60, 000 public domain books can fit on a flashdrive
by Emmanuel Engelhart 28 Aug '20

28 Aug '20

60,000 public domain books can fit on a flashdrive There are still parts of the world where access to the global internet is limited. Rural parts of world from Alaska to Africa to Asia have bandwidth to that is unevenly distributed. Governments regularly cut off website and apps access to their residents, with education often a collateral damage. There is and will always be a need for offline access to online resources. Project Gutenberg <https://gutenberg.org/> is a 48 year old organization whose mission is to make public domain works available for free on the internet. For the past two years, the Free Ebook Foundation has been working with Project Gutenberg to improve their website and ebook-building infrastructure. Kiwix has been developing content modules for some time now to facilitate their distribution effort. It was only a matter of time for these two orgs to meet and plan mischief together. Together with a team of computer-science seniors from Steven Institute of Technology <https://www.stevens.edu/>, and building on our development work with Project Gutenberg, the Free Ebook Foundation undertook to improve the usability and currency of Kiwix-developed Gutenberg content modules. The students added bookshelf functionality to the modules, and helped to streamline the process of module creation. These enhanced content modules are available today on the Kiwix website – a list is available <https://ebookfoundation.org/openzim.html> on the Free Ebook Foundation website, along with links to a demo site and the software used to create the content modules. USB flash drives that can store 128GB of data are can be found for as low as $20 on most online stores – that’s more than enough storage for all 60,000+ books. About the Free Ebook Foundation The Free Ebook Foundation <https://ebookfoundation.org> is a 501(c)3 New Jersey non-profit corporation. The Free Ebook Foundation envisions a world where ebooks will be funded, distributed and maintained for the benefit of all, by coordinating the efforts and resources of many. About Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg <http://www.gutenberg.org/> was the first provider of free electronic books. Its mission is to encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education. About Kiwix Kiwix is an offline reader for online content like Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, or TED Talks. It makes knowledge available to people with no or limited internet access. The software as well as the content is free to use for anyone. Kiwix is a non-profit organisation and is based in Switzerland. Our software is open-source available for free. The work we do is partially provided by volunteers, partially funded by individual donations, and grants from foundations. -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: https://kiwix.org/ * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * Wiki: https://wiki.kiwix.org/

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Invitation to affiliate members to complete a survey about WMF wide Universal Code of Conduct
by Florence Devouard 26 Aug '20

26 Aug '20

Transfered from Mervat She is inviting you to answer this survey, to help the Trust and Safety team to create a safter environment for all on our projects with the design of a global set of conduct rules. Please weight in Florence ==Message to Members== Hello; My name is Mervat, and I am helping the Trust and Safety team to reach out to affiliates in order to discuss the Universal Code of Conduct. There has been talks about the need for a global set of conduct rules in different communities over time, and finally, Wikimedia Foundation Board announced a Community Culture Statement, enacting new standards to address harassment and promote inclusivity across projects. Since the universal code of conduct that will be a binding minimum set of standards across all Wikimedia projects, will apply to all of us, staff and volunteers alike, all around the globe, and will impact our work as groups, individuals and projects, it’s of great importance that we all participate in expressing our opinions and thoughts about UCoC, its nature, what we think it should cover or include and what it shouldn’t include; how it may develop, drawback or help our groups. This is the time to talk about it. As you are a valuable contributor to the Wikimedia movement, your voice counts. Before starting to draft the code of conduct, we would like to hear from you; We invite you to devote some minutes to take this survey; your answers will help us create a safer environment for all on Wikimedia: (English): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd36dNdU3C5shXEkKp9itJOhuCTx9hZE5A… <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd36dNdU3C5shXEkKp9itJOhuCTx9hZE5A…> It’s possible that you are a member of more than one affiliate; hence you may receive this survey more than once, and you may have participated previously in the discussions or filled out a previous survey during the first round of consultations about UCoC which targeted wikipedia/wikimedia communities. We apologize for this; it is really difficult to identify if a wikimedianbelongs to multiple groups that work to spread free knowledge. Looking forward to your thoughts and opinions and hoping that you can respond within the next 2 weeks. If you have any questions about the surveys or difficulties accessing the link, please contact me by email (msalman-ctr(a)wikimedia.org <mailto:msalman-ctr@wikimedia.org>) Results will be considered during the drafting process for the UCoC Thank you for your participation Mervat Salman Trust & Safety (Policy) Facilitator Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment."

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