Anne Gomez <agomez(a)wikimedia.org> kirjoitti
21.7.2018 kello 0.00:
Hi Teemu,
I agree that there is a lot we can, and should, do for people who are not
online... I'm really excited about this partnership with Kiwix because they
are the base of a lot of different initiatives in the offline space.
Are you aware of WikiFundi[1]? It is a project, built on Kiwix, that is
taking steps towards offline editing. Offline editing is a really complex
problem from a technical and user experience perspective. The WikiFundi
team has been working on the product for a couple of years now, with
support from WMF and the Orange Foundation.
In January, the Foundation funded a project grant[2] to support WikiFundi
developing their user experience and effectiveness.
Cheers,
Anne
[1]
On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 11:39 AM, Leinonen Teemu <teemu.leinonen(a)aalto.fi>
wrote:
Hi all,
Offline is important but when doing these things we should same time
remember our vision statement’s part saying “*every single human being* can
freely *share* in the sum of all knowledge”.
We should never consider the people in the “offline world” being only
readers, users or consumers of the content, but people who naturally have a
lot of knowledge to share for the rest of the world.
With the offline distribution, let’s keep working on to have more
languages and active communities in the Wikimedia. Let’s have the
edit-button when ever possible.
-Teemu
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.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Internet-in-a-Box
James
> 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-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
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
>> --
>> *Samantha Lien*
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>> Wikimedia Foundation
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>> Suite 1600
>> San Francisco, CA 94104
>>
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