Congrats to you Emmanuel, Stéphane, and everyone making this amazing effort a reality. I'm a big fan of you all. Looking forward to Kiwix's *quinces* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincea%C3%B1era> in 5 years ;)
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Re: [KIWIX] 10th anniversary (Anne Gomez) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 10:12:07 +0100 > From: Emmanuel Engelhart <[email protected]> > To: Using Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki offline > <[email protected]>, Mailing list for Wikimedia CH > <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" > <[email protected]>, > "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > Subject: [Offline-l] [KIWIX] 10th anniversary > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 09:35:27 +0000 > From: Asaf Bartov <[email protected]> > To: Using Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki offline > <[email protected]>, Mailing list for Wikimedia CH > <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" > <[email protected]>, > "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Offline-l] [KIWIX] 10th anniversary > Message-ID: > <CAAmrcwcLp-9niK6pfeEBNdfRorrhUNcFDpkMBPGrh0Z= > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > 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 <[email protected]> > 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 > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/offline-l/ > attachments/20161018/0d2f2979/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 11:56:43 +0200 > From: Anne Gomez <[email protected]> > To: Using Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki offline > <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" > <[email protected]>, > "[email protected]" > <[email protected]>, Mailing list for > Wikimedia CH > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Offline-l] [KIWIX] 10th anniversary > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > 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 > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l > > _______________________________________________ > > Offline-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/offline-l/ > attachments/20161018/fc14235f/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Offline-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Offline-l Digest, Vol 61, Issue 3 > **************************************** > -- Jorge Vargas Head of Strategic Partnerships - LATAM Wikimedia Foundation [email protected] +1 415.404.9536 Skype: jorge.a.vargas.p
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