Greetings All,
With the annual fundraiser now over I'm going to be shifting a lot of my interest to both Mobile and Offline here at the WMF. I wanted to give you guys a quick update on our offline happenings and to highlight ways of working with us to make these projects successful.
- PediaPress, Collections and openZim
PediaPress has agreed to do some contract work for us to extend the current collections MediaWiki extension to support openZim ! The'll be starting on this mid January and will be looking for community members to help with testing valid openZim indices.
- Usability evaluation of Kiwix
Kiwix has been an awesome solution for browsing offline Wikipedia. We think that it could be even better with some careful attention to the search and browse experience. During Q1 we'll be doing a UX evaluation of Kiwix to find out how we can make the interface even easier to use. We'll be working closely with Emmanuel and others to implement our findings.
- Evaluation and extension of Wikipedia Release Version Tools
The offline Wikipedia team has been steadily releasing new versions of their Wikipedia collection but technical limitations have hampered how quickly those can be finished. Were taking a close look at their tools and seeing where we can help in creation of new indices.
Stay tuned for more ...
--tomasz