Emmanuel Engelhart, 03/01/2013 19:41:
I don't know exactly how it's configured on WPAR, but I think this is
only displayed to anonymous (not logged) users. This is certainly a good
approach to not bother logged users who are mostly pretty good informed
about such topics. What I find interesting with this notice system is
that this is really not intrusive (only a line), each user can remove a
message easily, you can specify your audience and vary your messages.
I don't know about the specific audience part; but I'm logged in and I
see it, and the rest is possible also with centralnotice and
sitenotice/anonnotice.
Ok. On it.wiki we have a rather thin section on Kiwix,
<https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiuto:Download_di_Wikipedia#Kiwix> (it
links a video, can you upload it to Commons so that it can be embedded?).
Should I? Is that good enough? The video is now two years old?
An old video is better than nothing I guess. If it's outdated it
shouldn't be linked either, should I remove it?
Someone
motivated to make a new screencast? This would be really great...
especially with the new kiwix server feature in the 0.9rc2.
+1
Where should I prepare a page to point Italian users to? Ideally it
would be your main page made translatable with the Translate extension
(if you install it, I can do the manual work). Otherwise we can fallback
to a Meta translatable page, to a "manual" translation or to that local
page.
Great, what I propose is:
* A landing page on WPIT, like on WPAR where users are redirected. On
this page you can explain with a Wikipedia focus what it is, etc... You
may also provide directly a link to download Kiwix or Kiwix with Wikipedia.
* Would be great to propose on www.kiwix.org a welcome page in Italian
(like we have in Farsi, German, French, Spanish...) at
http://www.kiwix.org/index.php/Main_Page/it
I'd prefer to maintain the (main effort for) information in Italian on
kiwix.org too, if possible.
Emmanuel Engelhart, 03/01/2013 19:55:
> The Kiwix Web site itself is also not good enough. This is my primary
> focus (in communication) to improve it.
>
> We have newly a volunteer on Kiwix advertisement and he already has
> achieved a few things, I hope he will continue on this way and help us
> to better communicate.
Is it also possible to make the pages there translatable? As with
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Translate
> With the audience of the last weeks we face another issue, a lot of
> people do not download the ZIM files but the bundles (Kiwix+Wikipedia)
> which are not mirrored at the WMF. I plan to ask the WMF to mirror also
> these files in a near future.
In fact I wondered about traffic, but if es.wiki didn't bring your site
down I suppose traffic from it.wiki shouldn't be too much.
Nemo
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