We are hoping to have a 128 Gb "Internet-in-a-Box"s with all of EN WP (plus
a bunch of other stuff including PT WP) in production soon at a cost of
about 40 to 60 USD.
James
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 7:24 PM Paulo Santos Perneta <
paulosperneta(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I also have requests from schools and other
educational institutions from
Guinea-Bissau (Bissau and Bolama, specifically)
to use Kiwix there to provide offline access to Wikipedia, as network
communications there are still very faulty, while many people already have
cell phones.
It would be really wonderful if we could implement it there.
Paulo
2018-07-20 3:27 GMT+01:00 Lucas Teles <teleswiki(a)gmail.com>om>:
Those are excellent news!
I wonder if there are any plans on working on less rich countries. They
usually have less internet access and would benefit from that.
Wikipedia Zero has just expired in Angola and I can’t imagine a best way
to
replace that source of knowledge withou having to
deal with the negative
side of it.
Concerning the many users from Angola that reached out to me complaining
about the end of Wikipedia Zero in Angola, giving them access to Kiwix
will
be of enormous help.
Teles
Em qui, 19 de jul de 2018 às 19:16, Samantha Lien <slien(a)wikimedia.org>
escreveu:
This press release is also available on the
Wikimedia blog here:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/07/18/wikimedia-
foundation-and-kiwix-partner-to-grow-offline-access-to-wikipedia/Wikimedia
> Foundation and Kiwix partner to grow offline
access to Wikipedia
> *The Wikimedia Foundation and Switzerland-based Kiwix announce a global
> collaboration to increase offline access to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia
> projects.*
>
> Lausanne, Switzerland, and San Francisco, USA, 18 July 2018 – The
> Wikimedia Foundation has announced a partnership with Kiwix, the free
and
> open-source software solution that enables
offline access to
educational
> content, to expand and improve access to
Wikipedia and other Wikimedia
> projects globally. This partnership will include a $275,000
contribution
to
Kiwix to further enhance offline access to
Wikipedia in parts of the
world
> where consistent, affordable internet connectivity presents a
significant
> barrier to accessing Wikipedia.
>
> “Our hope is that one day everyone will have access to the internet,
and
eliminate
the need for other offline methods of access to information.”
said Kiwix CEO Stephane Coillet-Matillon. “But we know that there are
still
> serious gaps in internet access globally that require solutions today.
> Kiwix is a tool to start fixing things right now.”
> The Wikimedia Foundation and Kiwix have had a long-standing
collaborative
relationship to expand access to Wikipedia around the world. This
includes
recent support to Kiwix and WikiProject Medicine
to improve the
availability of offline Wikipedia medical content [1], as well as
improvements to the Kiwix desktop experience.
Through this partnership, the two organizations will collaborate to
create
a long-term strategy for third party reuse of
Kiwix’s free access
platform,
> fix longstanding code debt, improve Kiwix’s usability across mobile
> platforms including Android, and integrate Kiwix’s and the Wikimedia
> Foundation’s technical operations more closely for improved Wikipedia
> offline experiences.
>
> “As part of the 2030 direction for Wikimedia’s future [2], we’re
thrilled
> to be partnering with Kiwix to invest in
solutions to address one of
the
critical
barriers to participating in Wikipedia globally: reliable
internet
access,” said Anne Gomez, Senior Program Manager
at the Wikimedia
Foundation. “We have made a commitment as an organization to actively
address the challenges and barriers to reaching our global Wikimedia
vision: a world in which everyone can freely share in knowledge. Today
marks an important step toward realizing that commitment.”
The Wikimedia vision is global: a world in which everyone can freely
share
> in the sum of all knowledge. While there has been a significant
reduction
in high
mobile data costs and other barriers to participating in
Wikipedia,
> more than half the world’s population is not yet online. [3]
>
> Today, Kiwix sits at the heart of the offline ecosystem with more than
3
million
users from more than 200 countries. It can store millions of
Wikipedia articles from any of Wikipedia’s nearly 300 languages along
with
> thousands of books and videos on a single flash drive or microSD card
for
access on
smartphones and computers. Kiwix has also worked with
nonprofits
such as the Orange Foundation, Human Rights
Foundation, Internet in a
Box,
> WikiFundi, and Digisoft to scale distribution of offline education
> materials around the world to students, teachers, and the general
public.
>
> More information about the Wikimedia Foundation’s work to expand access
> and participation to Wikipedia globally, including information about
this
> partnership with Kiwix, can be found in the
Wikimedia Foundation’s
> 2018-2019 annual plan. [4]
>
>
>
> About the Wikimedia Foundation
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that supports
and
operates
Wikipedia and its sister free knowledge projects. Wikipedia is
the
> world’s free knowledge resource, spanning more than 45 million articles
> across nearly 300 languages. Every month, more than 200,000 people edit
> Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, collectively creating and
improving
> knowledge that is accessed by more than 1
billion unique devices every
> month. This all makes Wikipedia one of the most popular web properties
in
the
world. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation
is
a 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily
through donations and
grants.
>
> About Kiwix
>
> Kiwix is an open-source software that brings internet content to
millions
of people
without internet access - be it because of cost, poor
infrastructures or even censorship. Websites like Wikipedia, TED talks,
the
Gutenberg library and many more can be stored and
browsed as if users
were
> online. Kiwix is available in more than 100 languages, and runs on all
> major desktop and mobile platforms. Based in Lausanne, Switzerland,
Kiwix
Association is a registered Swiss Verein that is funded solely through
donations and grants. For more information, see
www.kiwix.org.
Press contacts
Wikimedia Foundation
Kui Kinyanjui
press(a)wikimedia.org
Kiwix
Stéphane Coillet-Matillon
+41 79 215 8510 or stephane(a)kiwix.org
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Stephane/ Kiwix/Offline_medical
>
> [2]
>
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/11/03/wikimedia-movement-new-direction/
>
> [3]
https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/stat/default.aspx
>
> [4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Annual_Plan_1819
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