Hi,
The February month starts with two good news for Kiwix and Wikipedia offline in general: * For the first time we have had 100.000 downloads a month of Kiwix. * Kiwix was elected "Project of the Month" at Sourceforge, and published an interview of myself http://sourceforge.net/blog/potm-201302/
Kind regards Emmanuel
That's great! :)
Do we know what drove the rise in downloads? Anything in particular?
A.
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Emmanuel Engelhart kelson@kiwix.org wrote:
Hi,
The February month starts with two good news for Kiwix and Wikipedia offline in general:
- For the first time we have had 100.000 downloads a month of Kiwix.
- Kiwix was elected "Project of the Month" at Sourceforge, and published
an interview of myself http://sourceforge.net/blog/potm-201302/
Kind regards Emmanuel
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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
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.
A.
[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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Hello everyone,
Every year I organize a local event called Festival Latinoamericano Installation of Free Software Installation ( http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_Latinoamericano_de_Instalaci%C3%B3n_de...). In the event students typically attend college in the states of Venezuela. For this last event planned for April 28, I copied over 200 copies of Kiwix with Wikipedia offline. However, this is often insufficient, therefore conducted questions and if your answer is correct winner takes Kiwix back. (A presentation flisol 2012 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Venezuela_FLISOL_2012_p... )
This year will be full of surprises, I devised the method of giving the fruit Kiwix my personal computer and display in public.
Right now I am developing a linux live cd and Kiwix only, however, I do not think I can have it ready for presentation.
At Easter, I will be visiting an Indian village with no internet connection, I bought some WikiReader mainly looking for a solution to the conection problem and electricityt. They do not have access to services such as water and electricity.
I am not alone in this, there are several users helping me, including the major contributor of Wikipedia in Wayuu incubator ( http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Leonfd1992).
There are many things we are doing with Kiwix here, try to photograph everything.
Any help is welcome....
2013/2/4 Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org
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.
A.
[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.orgwrote:
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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Le 04/02/2013 22:20, Asaf Bartov a écrit :
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
Thank you Asaf for this message: I fully support it. I have copy your message in our "volunteers page": http://www.kiwix.org/index.php/Volunteers_program#Ambassador_Program
I can't do that myself because the lack of time... But I'm ready to help anyone wanting to create this starter kit.
Emmanuel
I found for myself install a full fledged webserver + database and load a wikidump "easy". But images are a problem, never founded a "package" of image used by a wiki. Maybe time to give a look at KIWIX...
Le 09/02/2013 14:57, Roy Bellingan a écrit :
I found for myself install a full fledged webserver + database and load a wikidump "easy". But images are a problem, never founded a "package" of image used by a wiki. Maybe time to give a look at KIWIX...
Yes, probably kiwix-serve: http://www.kiwix.org/index.php/Kiwix-serve/en
Emmanuel