James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> kirjoitti
20.7.2018 kello 12.54:
Agree amazing news. Offline is key for much of the world.
We are developing and distributing "Internet-in-a-Boxes" to help compensate
somewhat for the pull back from zero rating.
On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 4:27 AM Lucas Teles
<teleswiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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-partne…
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_medic…
[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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