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 If it's outdated it 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 _______________________________________________ Offline-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l
