Le 03/01/2013 20:16, Federico Leva (Nemo) a écrit :
Emmanuel Engelhart, 03/01/2013 19:41:
I don't know exactly how it's configured
on WPAR, but I think this is
only displayed to anonymous (not logged) users. This is certainly a good
approach to not bother logged users who are mostly pretty good informed
about such topics. What I find interesting with this notice system is
that this is really not intrusive (only a line), each user can remove a
message easily, you can specify your audience and vary your messages.
I don't know about the specific audience part; but I'm logged in and I
see it, and the rest is possible also with centralnotice and
sitenotice/anonnotice.
Ok. On
it.wiki we have a rather thin section on Kiwix,
<https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiuto:Download_di_Wikipedia#Kiwix> (it
links a video, can you upload it to Commons so that it can be
embedded?).
Should I? Is that good enough? The video is now two years old?
An old video is better than nothing I guess. If it's outdated it
shouldn't be linked either, should I remove it?
I prefer the actual statu quo. I have asked Asaf for help, hope someone
at the WMF with some skills in video will be willing investing a few
hours to make a new screencast.
Someone
motivated to make a new screencast? This would be really great...
especially with the new kiwix server feature in the 0.9rc2.
+1
Where should I prepare a page to point Italian
users to? Ideally it
would be your main page made translatable with the Translate extension
(if you install it, I can do the manual work). Otherwise we can fallback
to a Meta translatable page, to a "manual" translation or to that local
page.
Great, what I propose is:
* A landing page on WPIT, like on WPAR where users are redirected. On
this page you can explain with a Wikipedia focus what it is, etc... You
may also provide directly a link to download Kiwix or Kiwix with
Wikipedia.
* Would be great to propose on
www.kiwix.org a welcome page in Italian
(like we have in Farsi, German, French, Spanish...) at
http://www.kiwix.org/index.php/Main_Page/it
I'd prefer to maintain the (main effort for) information in Italian on
kiwix.org too, if possible.
OK
Emmanuel Engelhart, 03/01/2013 19:55:
The Kiwix Web site itself is also not good
enough. This is my primary
focus (in communication) to improve it.
We have newly a volunteer on Kiwix advertisement and he already has
achieved a few things, I hope he will continue on this way and help us
to better communicate.
Is it also possible to make the pages there translatable? As with
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Translate
Feel free. I don't know this tool. Usually people simply copy, adapt and
translate the presentation text in English - straight forward.
With the
audience of the last weeks we face another issue, a lot of
people do not download the ZIM files but the bundles (Kiwix+Wikipedia)
which are not mirrored at the WMF. I plan to ask the WMF to mirror also
these files in a near future.
In fact I wondered about traffic, but if es.wiki didn't bring your site
down I suppose traffic from it.wiki shouldn't be too much.
We have had yesterday 35.000 visitors, and if the site didn't go down,
it was pretty slow.
Emmanuel