Le 03/01/2013 20:16, Federico Leva (Nemo) a écrit :
> 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 If it's outdated it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?


I prefer the actual statu quo. I have asked Asaf for help, hope someone
at the WMF with some skills in video will be willing investing a few
hours to make a new screencast.

>> 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.

OK

> 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

Feel free. I don't know this tool. Usually people simply copy, adapt and
translate the presentation text in English - straight forward.

>> 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.

We have had yesterday 35.000 visitors, and if the site didn't go down,
it was pretty slow.

Emmanuel


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