<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Wow, congratulations to your team! And as Asaf said, thank you for your work in this area, I know it hasn't always been easier. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Looking forward to 10 more years!<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Oct 18, 2016, at 11:35 AM, Asaf Bartov <<a href="mailto:abartov@wikimedia.org">abartov@wikimedia.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Dear Emmanuel,<div><br></div><div>special thanks and appreciation to you, for your unwavering dedication to this work, in the face of many setbacks and obstacles.</div><div><br></div><div>Warmly,</div><div><br></div><div> Asaf</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 12:24 PM Emmanuel Engelhart <<a href="mailto:kelson@kiwix.org">kelson@kiwix.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi<br class="gmail_msg">
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10 years ago we have launched the Kiwix project to bring Wikipedia to<br class="gmail_msg">
people with no or a bad access to Internet. Today, we are really proud<br class="gmail_msg">
to see that we have achieved to do that, and even more.<br class="gmail_msg">
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All of this would not have been made possible without a committed team<br class="gmail_msg">
of volunteers and the strong support of Wikimedia Switzerland. Thanks to<br class="gmail_msg">
them (and a few other ones) we have achieved to:<br class="gmail_msg">
* Make Wikipedia readable offline on (almost) all kind of devices<br class="gmail_msg">
* Provide monthly updates of all Wikimedia projects<br class="gmail_msg">
* Provide an open-source/standardised offline technology re-usable for<br class="gmail_msg">
any kind of web content with openZIM<br class="gmail_msg">
* Build offline versions of various projects like Gutenberg, TEDs,<br class="gmail_msg">
Vikidia, Youtube, ...<br class="gmail_msg">
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With the additional help of dozens of partners, which spread content and<br class="gmail_msg">
technology in the field, we can track around 1M of users a year... and<br class="gmail_msg">
strongly believe this is the "tip of the iceberg".<br class="gmail_msg">
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Luckily, in the last 10 years, we have done a lot of progresses in the<br class="gmail_msg">
Internet access. That said, around half of the world population still<br class="gmail_msg">
does not have an access to Internet and censorship is a raising and<br class="gmail_msg">
already extremely serious problem.<br class="gmail_msg">
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As a consequence, we will be pretty busy in the next decade and will<br class="gmail_msg">
continue to improve our technology and offer always better solutions to<br class="gmail_msg">
read and spread free knowledge - offline.<br class="gmail_msg">
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We have made a blog post about our anniversary on Wikimedia blog, please<br class="gmail_msg">
share it on the social networks:<br class="gmail_msg">
<a href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/10/11/kiwix-ten-years/" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/10/11/kiwix-ten-years/</a><br class="gmail_msg">
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Regards<br class="gmail_msg">
Emmanuel Engelhart<br class="gmail_msg">
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Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more<br class="gmail_msg">
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* Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline</a><br class="gmail_msg">
* more: <a href="http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication</a><br class="gmail_msg">
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