I'm so glad that this is happening, and that news is out. Thanks to the Kiwix team for all of your work over the last decade. Really looking forward to seeing what comes next!
Anne On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 7:25 AM, Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just so :) > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 4:21 PM Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > >> 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 < >> steph...@kiwix.org> 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 >>> Offline-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> 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 ! >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > -- *Anne Gomez* // Senior Program Manager, New Readers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers> Pronouns: she/her https://wikimediafoundation.org/ *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Donate <http://donate.wikimedia.org>. *
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