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.
Looking forward to 10 more years! Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 18, 2016, at 11:35 AM, Asaf Bartov <abar...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Dear Emmanuel, > > special thanks and appreciation to you, for your unwavering dedication to > this work, in the face of many setbacks and obstacles. > > Warmly, > > Asaf > >> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 12:24 PM Emmanuel Engelhart <kel...@kiwix.org> wrote: >> Hi >> >> 10 years ago we have launched the Kiwix project to bring Wikipedia to >> people with no or a bad access to Internet. Today, we are really proud >> to see that we have achieved to do that, and even more. >> >> All of this would not have been made possible without a committed team >> of volunteers and the strong support of Wikimedia Switzerland. Thanks to >> them (and a few other ones) we have achieved to: >> * Make Wikipedia readable offline on (almost) all kind of devices >> * Provide monthly updates of all Wikimedia projects >> * Provide an open-source/standardised offline technology re-usable for >> any kind of web content with openZIM >> * Build offline versions of various projects like Gutenberg, TEDs, >> Vikidia, Youtube, ... >> >> With the additional help of dozens of partners, which spread content and >> technology in the field, we can track around 1M of users a year... and >> strongly believe this is the "tip of the iceberg". >> >> Luckily, in the last 10 years, we have done a lot of progresses in the >> Internet access. That said, around half of the world population still >> does not have an access to Internet and censorship is a raising and >> already extremely serious problem. >> >> As a consequence, we will be pretty busy in the next decade and will >> continue to improve our technology and offer always better solutions to >> read and spread free knowledge - offline. >> >> We have made a blog post about our anniversary on Wikimedia blog, please >> share it on the social networks: >> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/10/11/kiwix-ten-years/ >> >> Regards >> Emmanuel Engelhart >> >> -- >> Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more >> * Web: http://www.kiwix.org >> * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline >> * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Offline-l mailing list >> Offline-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l > _______________________________________________ > Offline-l mailing list > Offline-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l
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