Ah, right!

Perhaps a nice kit would help. You know, like for organizing Linux installation parties[1] or Mozilla's event kits[2] etc., that encourages people, and provides step-by-step guidance and advice, to go and install Kiwix with a relevant offline Wikipedia file in their local no-Internet (or restricted/expensive Internet) school, college, community center, etc.

Would anyone be interested in working on that? WMF can contribute funding for some materials -- a Kiwix quick-start guide or cheatsheet, stickers, T-shirts.

[1] http://ladypine.org/installfest.html, http://www.wikihow.com/Arrange-Linux-Install-Party

[2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/Teach/WebmakingResources

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Emmanuel Engelhart <kelson@kiwix.org> wrote:

Le 04/02/2013 10:47, Asaf Bartov a écrit :

> That's great! :)
>
> Do we know what drove the rise in downloads? Anything in particular?

Yes: notices on Wikipedia. In January, visitors were mostly generated by
a notice on WPES. Like written in the Sourceforge interview, the biggest
issue we face currently is lack of communication to our (potential)
end-users. We have remarked that people do not figure our that this is
possible to have the whole Wikipedia with pictures offline - then even
to not search on a Web search engine. This is our current priority to
improve this situation, one way is to put notices on Wikipedia.

Emmanuel

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