Ah, right!

Perhaps a nice kit would help.  You know, like for organizing Linux
installation parties[1] or Mozilla's event kits[2] etc., that encourages
people, and provides step-by-step guidance and advice, to go and install
Kiwix with a relevant offline Wikipedia file in their local no-Internet (or
restricted/expensive Internet) school, college, community center, etc.

Would anyone be interested in working on that?  WMF can contribute funding
for some materials -- a Kiwix quick-start guide or cheatsheet, stickers,
T-shirts.

   A.

[1] http://ladypine.org/installfest.html,
http://www.wikihow.com/Arrange-Linux-Install-Party
[2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/Teach/WebmakingResources


On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Emmanuel Engelhart <[email protected]> wrote:

> Le 04/02/2013 10:47, Asaf Bartov a écrit :
> > That's great! :)
> >
> > Do we know what drove the rise in downloads?  Anything in particular?
>
> Yes: notices on Wikipedia. In January, visitors were mostly generated by
> a notice on WPES. Like written in the Sourceforge interview, the biggest
> issue we face currently is lack of communication to our (potential)
> end-users. We have remarked that people do not figure our that this is
> possible to have the whole Wikipedia with pictures offline - then even
> to not search on a Web search engine. This is our current priority to
> improve this situation, one way is to put notices on Wikipedia.
>
> Emmanuel
>
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