At Last! It took a decade to rebuild the WMF-Kiwix marriage (all marriages are tough work) and we Look Forward To Many Children :-)
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:46 AM, Stéphane Coillet-Matillon < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > A quick note to announce that Kiwix and the Wikimedia Foundation have > decided to enter a more formal partnership to replace the limited, > project-based approach we had until now. The official announcement is here: > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/07/18/wikimedia- > foundation-and-kiwix-partner-to-grow-offline-access-to-wikipedia > > The TL;DR of it is that we'll be able to continue to build on the massive > improvements we made over the past 18 months. We have 3 million users, and > there are 4 billion people without reliable access: there certainly is room > for more growth. > > This is a first, small step, but an important one : for this year we'll > focus on improving user experience, and make it easier for people to access > content offline (aka zim farm). If this works well, I'd like us to look > into incremental updates as early as next year. > > Thanks to everyone on this list that helped make it happen! > > Emmanuel and Stephane > > _______________________________________________ > Offline-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l > > -- > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l> > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l> > Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l> > http://unleashkids.org ! >
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