[Offline-l] OPDS (Open Publication Distribution System)

Hi I discovered today OPDS (Open Publication Distribution System) which is a XML feed norm to spread e-books catalogs. You may get more information at: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/OPDS This seems to be pretty new but looks to be an interesting initiative. I developed a straight

[Offline-l] Kiwix 0.9 beta4 is out!

eatures at: * http://reportabug.kiwix.org * http://requestafeature.kiwix.org Stay tune at: * http://identi.ca/group/kiwix * http://planet.kiwix.org * http://blog.kiwix.org Regards Emmanuel Engelhart signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___

Re: [Offline-l] Improving the article selection process

On 11/21/2011 01:00 PM, Jessie Wild wrote: > > * *Website placement: *I think it is obvious the space the Book > Creator takes on the Left Hand tool bar is not enough to draw > attention to the feature. I wonder if we should attempt to have > some sort of a "Save for Offline Use" butt

Re: [Offline-l] [Wikitech-l] Quick Mumbai hackathon followup

On 30/11/2011 04:28, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > I'm asking Emmanuel to send an offline-related summary to > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l . The Hackathon was this time more open than for example in Berlin, so we had the visit of many people which mostly were at the same

[Offline-l] Kiwix 0.9 beta5 is out!

es/0.9_beta5/ * Content at http://www.kiwix.org Report bugs and request features at: *http://reportabug.kiwix.org *http://requestafeature.kiwix.org Stay tune at: *http://identi.ca/group/kiwix *http://planet.kiwix.org *http://blog.kiwix.org Regards Emmanuel Engelhart

Re: [Offline-l] www.kiwix.org

Hallo Abbas Which Web page does not work? What is exactly the wrong behaviour or error? Can you access http://download.kiwix.org? Everything seems ok from here. Regards Emmanuel On 01/04/2012 03:55 PM, Abbas Mahmood wrote: > Hi, > > I've been getting error messages whenever I try to access the

Re: [Offline-l] wp-mirror 0.2 released

Hallo Kent I'm really interesting in wp-mirror. I have my own set of scripts in Perl for Kiwix which barely do the same (and also other things) but I have too few time to maintain them correctly. So, this is really good that you have invested time to build a clean solution. Hope you will have tim

Re: [Offline-l] wp-mirror 0.2 released

On 07/01/2012 19:36, wp mirror wrote: > Dear Emanuel, > > Thank you for your expression of interest. I do intend to support WP-MIRROR. > > Thank you also for your bug report. So far, I have been unable to > reproduce your bug. However, I did notice that your command was: > > $./wp-mirror-0.2.

Re: [Offline-l] wp-mirror 0.2 released

Hi Kent On 08/01/2012 01:59, wp mirror wrote: > 1) Please let me see the output of > > $ ./wp-mirror-0.2.lisp --debug > > It should be: > > ;debug: Processing command line arguments ... $./wp-mirror-0.2.lisp --debug *** - Program stack overflow. RESET > 2) Debian Sqeeze uses clisp 2.48. I t

Re: [Offline-l] wp-mirror 0.2 released

0.2 will not run using clisp 2.44. > It really does need clisp 2.48. > > Distributions having clisp 2.48 (or higher) include: > > DEB - Debian Squeeze, Ubuntu Natty > RPM - Fedora 13 updates, Mandriva 2010, OpenSuSE 11.4 > > Sincerely Yours, > Kent > > > On 1

Re: [Offline-l] Question about setup such a page in media wiki

Hi Zichen On 27/02/2012 20:21, Frank Xu wrote: > I'm working on setting up a wikipage for my research lab and our tech support > gave us the interface of mediawiki. Due to the university constrain rules, I > cannot access the backend files such as configure php files etc. However, I > have > s

Re: [Offline-l] FYI - presentation today for Open Education Week

On 09/03/2012 16:46, Jessie Wild wrote: > Hey everyone! > > FYI, I'm speaking about Offline Wikipedia for Open Education Week today[1] > > Thanks to Abbas for helping make the connection. Sorry for the late notice > - it just got scheduled! > > Jessie > > [1] > http://openeducationweek2012.sche

[Offline-l] [IDEA] Sharing Place

Hi We currently spread our offline content mostly online. In the case of ZIM files, many of them are really huge. I received today a feedback from Kiwix user in Spain who has downloaded the full WPES ZIM file (~10GB) over many weeks... at the end he has discovered that in the meantime we had rele

Re: [Offline-l] [IDEA] Sharing Place

On 04/13/2012 08:40 PM, Martin Walker wrote: From the Kiwix page it looks like these files are of the order of 5-15 GB. Would it be possible to have it available in certain locations on USB flash drives for mailing to people? Something like http://www.wikiusb.com ? In the system I propose, may

Re: [Offline-l] [IDEA] Sharing Place

On 13/04/2012 15:53, Emmanuel Engelhart wrote: > Does someone knows a software which maybe already does that? I partly reply to myself and so one maybe get more feedbacks. I have discovered http://www.ushahidi.com/ which IMO could be able to motorize such a solution. The primary purpose of suc

Re: [Offline-l] [IDEA] Sharing Place

On 16/04/2012 19:00, Erik Moeller wrote: > Since it's not come up yet, a more unconventional way to do large data > distribution: > > http://deaddrops.com/ YES, it's not the first time someone propose me to do something like deaddrops. Let us try to make something together now: http://www.kiwix.o

Re: [Offline-l] About information of offline tools for managing the media wiki site

Hi, I do not really understand your question but this ML is to discuss about spreading Wikimedia contents offline. Are you sure this is the right place for your question? If YES, please elaborate your question and give us more information about your use case. Regards Emmanuel On 04/26/2012

[Offline-l] Thoughs & problematics related to HTML internal links

Dear ZIM hackers, I recently improved the Kiwix HTTP software called kiwix-serve. Small reminder: this software is a HTTP server able to deliver ZIM file contents, so it acts as a Web server. Kiwix-serve has the new ability to deal with many ZIM files at the same time (so with only one binary inst

Re: [Offline-l] Thoughs & problematics related to HTML internal links

On 20/05/2012 11:22, Tommi Mäkitalo wrote: > If you use relative URLs you have to take care about articles, which > contain '/'. Look at e.g. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_501/502. In a > zim file this will be /A/BMW_501/502. Relative urls must point to > ../something or ../../A/something. If yo

[Offline-l] [Wikipublish] A Wikimedia publication platform?

Hi, Gerardm has released within the last week two blog posts about our weakness to publish and advert ready-to-use offline "books": * http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.fr/2012/06/wmdevdays-finished-book-source-then.html * http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.fr/2012/06/publishing-final-versions.html

Re: [Offline-l] [Wikipublish] A Wikimedia publication platform?

On 06/07/2012 03:36 PM, Magnus Manske wrote: On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Emmanuel Engelhart wrote: Hi, Gerardm has released within the last week two blog posts about our weakness to publish and advert ready-to-use offline "books": * http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.fr/2012/06

Re: [Offline-l] [Wikipublish] A Wikimedia publication platform?

On 06/07/2012 04:01 PM, Bastien Guerry wrote: Emmanuel Engelhart writes: http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.fr/2012/06/wmdevdays-finished-book-source-then.html * http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.fr/2012/06/publishing-final-versions.html I share his concern: we should IMO elaborate a plan/agenda

Re: [Offline-l] [Wikipublish] A Wikimedia publication platform?

On 06/07/2012 02:37 PM, Emmanuel Engelhart wrote: Hi, Gerardm has released within the last week two blog posts about our weakness to publish and advert ready-to-use offline "books": * http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.fr/2012/06/wmdevdays-finished-book-source-then.ht

[Offline-l] Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Wikimedia at Open Source Bridge conference, late June, Portland

Renaud will speak there about his experience as a wikipedian, Kiwix developer and open source evangelist... Original Message Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Wikimedia at Open Source Bridge conference, late June, Portland Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 06:36:58 -0400 From: Sumana Harihareswara

Re: [Offline-l] Mediawiki offline

On 18/06/2012 13:17, Manuel Schneider wrote: > 1st question: Does Kiwix (the most popular ZIM reader) support video? > As Kiwix is using XUL, based on Firefox, chances are that Ogg/Theora > videos may work out of the box. Kiwix supports HTML videos since the version 0.9 RC1... I will release today

[Offline-l] [AFRIPEDIA][KIWIX] First release for the kiwix-plug

Hi, we have finished a first version of the kiwix-plug scripts. As a reminder, a kiwix-plug is a plug computer offering a wifi hotspot to surf on Wikipedia without Internet access. This scripts are developed in the Afripedia scrope, a project managed by Wikimedia France. If you already have

[Offline-l] [KIWIX] 0.9 Release candidate 1 is out!

Hi We publish the first release candidate of Kiwix 0.9 (Kiwix 0.9 rc1). The most important improvements are: * Official support of Sugar * Official support of armv5 for kiwix-serve * Debian packages [1] * Multiple UI fixes on all systems * aria2c download process mgmt now 100% OK * Singleton-wind

Re: [Offline-l] Thoughs & problematics related to HTML internal links

On 20/05/2012 11:22, Tommi Mäkitalo wrote: > If you use relative URLs you have to take care about articles, which > contain '/'. Look at e.g. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_501/502. In a > zim file this will be /A/BMW_501/502. Relative urls must point to > ../something or ../../A/something. If yo

Re: [Offline-l] Improving the article selection process

On 01/02/2012 20:28, Jessie Wild wrote: > Thanks for posting this, Cristoph! I just left some more feedback. It > would be great to hear from others on this list as well! > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Collection_Extension_2 I'm really late... but I finally took time to read this proposal. I hav

Re: [Offline-l] Improving the article selection process

On 06/08/2012 16:45, Heiko Hees wrote: > > On 06.08.2012, at 00:38, Emmanuel Engelhart wrote: > >> On 01/02/2012 20:28, Jessie Wild wrote: >>> Thanks for posting this, Cristoph! I just left some more feedback. It >>> would be great to hear from other

Re: [Offline-l] Why all ths does not work under Ubuntu

On 07/08/2012 02:58, M K Yadava IFS wrote: > Dear Emmanuel, > > Our team tried installing kiwix etc in Ubuntu 12.04. After 5 days of > frustrated effort, he left it. Further, for every PC/laptop one has to > repeat the process (which means I need to get 27000 iterations of this > long exercise). >

Re: [Offline-l] Why all ths does not work under Ubuntu

On 07/08/2012 20:02, Jorge Gonzalez wrote: > Hi Kelson > > Is possible include the xulrunner in a kiwix package of ppa? Yes. It's possible and it's what we want to do. Unfortunately, it's not so trivial to do it in the right way. If it works, we will push to move on the package in the official Ub

Re: [Offline-l] Thoughs & problematics related to HTML internal links

Le 05/08/2012 23:52, Emmanuel Engelhart a écrit : > On 20/05/2012 11:22, Tommi Mäkitalo wrote: >> If you use relative URLs you have to take care about articles, which >> contain '/'. Look at e.g. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_501/502. In a >> zim file this will b

[Offline-l] Kiwix testers needed for PortableApps.com

Dear Kiwix users, PortableApps.com thinks about integrating Kiwix to their software offer and they need testers to validate their own package of Kiwix: http://portableapps.com/node/31809 PortableApps.com is the world leader provider for softwares (for MS/Windows) which can be directly used on

[Offline-l] French Wikipedia with one USB stick for 25 euros

Hi, Newly available to buy online for only 25 euros: Kiwix with all articles of Wikipedia in French on one USB stick (with a lot of additional free softwares). http://enventelibre.org/produit/framakey-wikipedia Done in collaboration with Wikimedia France and Framasoft (blog posts in French): * ht

Re: [Offline-l] Building a ZIM file with images

Le 10/10/2012 20:32, Jason Skomorowski a écrit : > Hi! > > I would like to build a ZIM file of the Simple English Wikipedia > including the full resolution images for educational use in a region > without reliable Internet access. > > So far as I can tell, I would need to: > > * grab a copy of t

Re: [Offline-l] French Wikipedia with one USB stick for 25 euros

Le 11/10/2012 07:57, Federico Leva (Nemo) a écrit : > Emmanuel Engelhart, 08/10/2012 14:47: >> Newly available to buy online for only 25 euros: >> Kiwix with all articles of Wikipedia in French on one USB stick (with a >> lot of additional free softwares). >> http

Re: [Offline-l] French Wikipedia with one USB stick for 25 euros

Le 11/10/2012 10:56, Cristian Consonni a écrit : > 2012/10/11 Emmanuel Engelhart : >> Le 11/10/2012 07:57, Federico Leva (Nemo) a écrit : >>> Let us know of the results. >>> Oh, and who's taking the publishing responsibility if such a thing >>> exists in Fr

Re: [Offline-l] Building a ZIM file with images

Le 24/10/2012 16:22, Jason Skomorowski a écrit : > On 12-10-10 05:15 PM, Emmanuel Engelhart wrote: >> Le 10/10/2012 20:32, Jason Skomorowski a écrit : >>> Hi! >>> >>> I would like to build a ZIM file of the Simple English Wikipedia >>> including the fu

Re: [Offline-l] (no subject)

Le 13/11/2012 05:24, wp mirror a écrit : > Dear list members, > > I am pleased to announce the release of WP-MIRROR 0.4. The main > design objective of this version is this: WP-MIRROR 0.4 should work > `out-of-the-box' with no user configuration. > > The web page

Re: [Offline-l] Nanoscale printing of Wikipedia

Thank for this news Nemo. Here my answer on the village pump: I can do that and everything is already there. I used to deal with whole dumps of Wikipedia to generate ZIM files for [http://www.kiwix.org Kiwix]. Here, as example, a [http://tmp.kiwix.org/wikipedia_kowiki.html.png demo file of the "Wi

Re: [Offline-l] Nanoscale printing of Wikipedia

Le 18/11/2012 12:15, Federico Leva (Nemo) a écrit : > Emmanuel Engelhart, 17/11/2012 21:04: >> Thank for this news Nemo. Here my answer on the village pump: >> >> I can do that and everything is already there. I used to deal with whole >> dumps of Wikipedia to g

[Offline-l] New Offline Wikipedia audience measurement tool!

Hi We have revamped the audience measurement system of Kiwix. We provide now and easy and practical tool for people who want detailed and accurate data about the offline Wikipedia downloads. Everything is available at: http://stats.kiwix.org It's important to notice that you have two sites (

[Offline-l] Fwd: Kiwix 0.9 RC2 pre-release

Please help us to test new release! Original Message Subject: Kiwix 0.9 RC2 pre-release Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:01:34 +0100 From: Emmanuel Engelhart To: kiwix-test...@lists.sourceforge.net CC: Mailing list for Wikimedia CH Dear Kiwix testers After 5 months of work, we

Re: [Offline-l] Images from en-wiki

Hi Sanjay On 12/20/2012 10:31 PM, Sanjay Bappudi wrote: I have a couple quick questions that I couldn't really find the answer to anywhere online. I'm trying to find the best way to have my local copy of en-wiki be able to have images. This i not easily feasible because all the images of wpen

Re: [Offline-l] Fwd: Kiwix 0.9 RC2 pre-release

On 12/21/2012 12:42 AM, Asaf Bartov wrote: Is there a [[Roadmap]] page or anything like that somewhere? We have a pretty general one there: http://www.kiwix.org/index.php/Roadmap/en But we don't stick hard to it. Emmanuel ___ Offline-l mailing list

[Offline-l] Kiwix 0.9 rc2 released!

Hi The second release candidate of Kiwix 0.9 (Kiwix 0.9 rc2) is now online! The most important improvements are: * FIXED: kiwix-install crashes * FIXED: kiwix-serve memory leak on ARM (ID: 3538663) * FIXED: Open link in new tab from the right-click contextual menu (ID: 3553735) * FIXED: Proble

Re: [Offline-l] Request for technical help with English Wikipedia release Version 0.9

Dear MK Yadava Like indicated on our wiki, we haven't delivered Ubuntu packages anymore since Ubuntu 11.10. The reason is that Canonical decided to delete the xulrunner package from its software center: http://www.kiwix.org/index.php/Ubuntu_PPA You need the static version of Kiwix (the link i

Re: [Offline-l] Request for technical help with English Wikipedia release Version 0.9

On 12/31/2012 12:09 AM, rupert THURNER wrote: ubuntu stated as reason that it is too much work to maintain xulrunner for the long term support versions: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2011-May/033229.html i am wondering how debian handled the challenge of the rapid, and sometimes

Re: [Offline-l] Javascript ZIM reader?

Hi Douglas On 01/01/2013 02:22 AM, Douglas Crosher wrote: Has anyone considered a pure Javascript ZIM file reader and Wikipedia reader? No, this is complicated to do... although this could be practical. I'm also not sure if we could achieve to get acceptable performances. I have made a sma

[Offline-l] 70.000 Kiwix downloads in December 2012!

Hi We have reached a new peak in our audience last month! We delivered 70.000 copies of Kiwix from our Website: * 40.000 "nacked" tarballs * 30.000 bundles (with a Wikipedia ZIM file) A few Wikipedia communities put notices and this really helped to advert Wikipedia Offline. We also received t

Re: [Offline-l] 70.000 Kiwix downloads in December 2012!

On 01/01/2013 05:01 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Emmanuel Engelhart, 01/01/2013 16:58: A few Wikipedia communities put notices and this really helped to advert Wikipedia Offline. Nice, which ones? Is it.wiki still missing? WPAR has a permanent "intelligent" notice using a gad

Re: [Offline-l] Javascript ZIM reader?

Hi Douglas I will try to answer you, tell it if somehow I misunderstand you. Le 01/01/2013 14:18, Douglas Crosher a écrit : > Would it be very limiting on ZIM files if the XZ decoder were restricted > to the 'XZ embedded' format, supporting only the 'LZMA2' filter? See: > http://tukaani.org/xz/

Re: [Offline-l] Javascript ZIM reader?

Le 01/01/2013 15:09, Douglas Crosher a écrit : > If raw LZMA1 were an option then it could also be useful to include the > CRC32 for each cluster blob so that the decompresser could exit as soon > as the blob was decoded rather than having to decompress the entire > cluster to verify the XZ checks.

Re: [Offline-l] 70.000 Kiwix downloads in December 2012!

Hi Federico Le 01/01/2013 19:06, Federico Leva (Nemo) a écrit : > Emmanuel Engelhart, 01/01/2013 17:12: >> WPAR has a permanent "intelligent" notice using a gadget called >> AdvancedSiteNotice (IMO the best approach). > > Thanks. As ar as I can see it&#x

Re: [Offline-l] 70.000 Kiwix downloads in December 2012!

Le 02/01/2013 20:01, Quim Gil a écrit : > On 01/01/2013 07:58 AM, Emmanuel Engelhart wrote: >> If you have ideas to help us spreading Wikipedia offline, feel free to >> implement them. Your help is really welcome. > > fwiw I just claimed https://www.ohloh.net/p/Kiwix unde

Re: [Offline-l] Javascript ZIM reader?

Le 03/01/2013 18:49, Tommi Mäkitalo a écrit : > Actually no xz overhead is used here. The format specification claims the contrary: "compressed clusters are indicated by a value of 4 which indicates LZMA2 compression (or more precisely XZ, since there is a XZ header). http://openzim.org/index.php

Re: [Offline-l] 70.000 Kiwix downloads in December 2012!

Le 03/01/2013 20:16, Federico Leva (Nemo) a écrit : > Emmanuel Engelhart, 03/01/2013 19:41: >> I don't know exactly how it's configured on WPAR, but I think this is >> only displayed to anonymous (not logged) users. This is certainly a good >> approach to not bot

[Offline-l] [PROPOSAL] Small improvement of the ZIM language metadata

Hi, I have published a few weeks ago a first bilingual ZIM file. http://download.kiwix.org/zim/other/mullah_piaz_digest.zim By allowing only one language in its metadata, the ZIM format is not adapted for that. See the definition: http://www.openzim.org/index.php/Metadata I propose to allow to g

[Offline-l] Name collision between openZIM and zim-wiki

Hi, We have a name collision between our project openZIM and an other project called Zim-wiki: * Zim-wiki (http://zim-wiki.org/), a local wiki solution * openZIM (http://www.openzim.org), a file format to store offline web content Zim-wiki is a little bit older than openZIM, so it seems to be "ou

[Offline-l] [KIWIX] A few good news for February!

Hi, The February month starts with two good news for Kiwix and Wikipedia offline in general: * For the first time we have had 100.000 downloads a month of Kiwix. * Kiwix was elected "Project of the Month" at Sourceforge, and published an interview of myself http://sourceforge.net/blog/potm-201302/

Re: [Offline-l] [KIWIX] A few good news for February!

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 c

Re: [Offline-l] [KIWIX] A few good news for February!

Le 04/02/2013 22:20, Asaf Bartov a écrit : > 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 relev

Re: [Offline-l] [KIWIX] I don't know you...

Le 09/02/2013 14:57, Roy Bellingan a écrit : > I found for myself install a full fledged webserver + database and load > a wikidump "easy". But images are a problem, never founded a "package" of > image used by a > wiki. Maybe time to give a look at KIWIX... Yes, probably kiwix-serve: http://www.

[Offline-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Grants available for anti-surveillance/anti-censorship design & other tech work

Dear Developers I have heard about this funding opportunity at the OpenITP (Thx Sumana). See Email below. At Kiwix, we think the spreading of content should be as much as possible decentralized... for technical and political reasons. Our current setup is based on Metalink and HTTP protocols, but

Re: [Offline-l] [PROPOSAL] Small improvement of the ZIM language metadata

HI, I have fixed the ZIM specs: http://openzim.org/w/index.php?title=Metadata&diff=2635&oldid=1399 and support that now in Kiwix. Regards Emmanuel Le 05/01/2013 18:04, Emmanuel Engelhart a écrit : > Hi, > > I have published a few weeks ago a first bilingual

[Offline-l] [Kiwix Promotional Video] We need your story!

Hi Kiwix and the Wikimedia Foundation are engaged in the creation of a promotional video for Wikipedia offline. In a first time, we are looking for personal and inspiring stories about how offline Wikipedia affects people. You have maybe one anecdotes or story to tell us? This doesn't need to be

[Offline-l] Kiwix @Hong Kong for Wikimania 2013

Hi Kiwix will be present at Wikimania 2013 in August with two developers. We have a small hackathon before Wikimania and we will of course attend to the two tech days. We have also submitted two presentations: * Kiwix or the 7 ways to go Offline: https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissi

[Offline-l] Kiwix for Android released!

Hi, Wikimedia CH has sponsored a long Kiwix Hackathon (and the WMF two tablets) and there is the result, the first version of Kiwix (and also the first ZIM reader) for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile It’s very easy to use: * Download the app from the G

Re: [Offline-l] [Wikimediach-l] Kiwix for Android released!

Le 18/04/2013 10:58, Manuel Schneider a écrit : > Am 2013-04-18 10:33, schrieb Emmanuel Engelhart: >> Wikimedia CH has sponsored a long Kiwix Hackathon (and the WMF two >> tablets) and there is the result, the first version of Kiwix (and also >> the first ZIM reader)

[Offline-l] [OPENZIM] zimlib 1.0 code tarball released

Hi The openZIM project finally released a first version of its standard implementation code, the zimlib: http://www.openzim.org/download/zimlib-1.0.tar.gz This tarball contains the C++ dev files: * to read a ZIM file, * to write a ZIM file, * a few tools * a few example programs. Releasing this

Re: [Offline-l] [Wikitech-l] GSoC Project

Dear Kiran Before commenting your proposal, let me thank: * Quim for having renamed this thread... I wouldn't have got a chance to read it otherwise. * Gnosygnu and Sumana for their previous answers. Your emails points three problems: (1) The size of the offline dumps (2) Server mode of the offli

Re: [Offline-l] upstream-tracker: add library (zimlib)

Hi Thank you Andrey and Micah for that: http://upstream-tracker.org/versions/zimlib.html I have updated the wiki. Regards Emmanuel Le 25/04/2013 16:58, Micah Roth a écrit : > Andrey, > > Sorry for that oversight. I am sure the wiki will be updated with a > download link to the release tarball.

[Offline-l] Kiwix for Android released one month ago...

Hi, A first version of Kiwix for Android was released a month ago. The app was warm welcome with around 2.000 total installations and 1.000 active ones. An average note of 4.25/5 were given in 25 feedbacks. Almost no bug were detected and people simply want more features. We have released a few

Re: [Offline-l] Internet Offline (Re: Offline Khan Academy)

Hi Jason, internetoffline.org is a nice initiative. Best encouragements. Regards Emmanuel Le 08/05/2013 23:17, Jason Skomorowski a écrit : > Thanks! > > It's been hard to find links just like that. Resources you might expect to > often don't offer instructions for offline use or licence clarity

[Offline-l] First Google Summer of Code for Kiwix and openZIM

Hi We have had our first Google Summer of Code proposal finally accepted: * http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/kiranmathewkoshy/24001 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Kiran_mathew_1993 /ZIM_incremental_updates_for_Kiwix * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Kiran_mathe

[Offline-l] [RELEASE] Kiwix for Android v1.3

Hi, we have released a new version of our ZIM reader for Android. This release provides a few new things: * New "Night mode" (reverse colors) * New "Exit" menu entry * Zoom controls now optional * Fixed "duplicate suggestions" bug Try it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.k

[Offline-l] [REQUEST FOR HELP] Italian native speakers urgently needed!

Hi Kiwix new promotional documents should be translated in Italian, French and German before to be then sent to the PR agency/printer. Unfortunately, we still need the translated documents in Italian (French and German are already done). I would be really thankful if someone could invest around 1

Re: [Offline-l] [REQUEST FOR HELP] Italian native speakers urgently needed!

Le 26/09/2013 15:12, Roy Bellingan a écrit : > Il 26/09/2013 14:13, Emmanuel Engelhart ha scritto: >> Hi >> >> Kiwix new promotional documents should be translated in Italian, French >> and German before to be then sent to the PR agency/printer. >> >> ...

[Offline-l] Fwd: [HELP NEEDED] Javascript (beginner level) developer for a small feature request

Message original Sujet: [HELP NEEDED] Javascript (beginner level) developer for a small feature request Date : Wed, 09 Oct 2013 12:47:00 +0200 De : Emmanuel Engelhart Pour : kiwix-develo...@lists.sourceforge.net Hi, I would appreciate any help for a small javscript

Re: [Offline-l] Fwd: [HELP NEEDED] Javascript (beginner level) developer for a small feature request

Great! I have assigned the ticket to you. Thank you Emmanuel Le 09/10/2013 13:59, Wilfredor a écrit : > Hi Emmannuel, > > I want to do this request. > > Thanks > > > 2013/10/9 Emmanuel Engelhart mailto:kel...@kiwix.org>> > > Message origina

Re: [Offline-l] Fwd: Wikipedia for Schools new version

In addition: "Wikipedia for Schools" is already packaged with Kiwix: * Portable version (Kiwix+ZIM+fulltext index): http://download.kiwix.org/portable/wikipedia_en_for_schools.zip.torrent * ZIM file: http://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia_en_for_schools.zim.torrent * Online demo: http://librar

Re: [Offline-l] Google Code-in: are you in?

Dear Quim Le 22/10/2013 20:04, Quim Gil a écrit : > Google Code-In is a contest to introduce pre-university students (ages > 13-17) to the many kinds of contributions that make open source software > development possible. Students must complete tasks, one at a time. The > Google Code-in 2013 conte

[Offline-l] [HELP NEEDED] Javascript (beginner level) developer for a small feature request

Wilfredo has fixed everything... and more. The result is there: http://www.kiwix.org/m/ Let me know if you still see a bug. Emmanuel Le 09/10/2013 13:38, Emmanuel Engelhart a écrit : > Message original > Sujet: [HELP NEEDED] Javascript (beginner level) developer for a

Re: [Offline-l] Get images of article.

Hi Yannick Le 08/11/2013 13:01, Federico Leva (Nemo) a écrit : > Yannick Guigui, 08/11/2013 12:22: >> I'm camerounian I built a webapp whose allows students to consult >> wikipedia articles I was in Cameroun 3 weeks ago to promote Kiwix technologies. I can give you some local contacts which shoul

[Offline-l] New releases of Kiwix for Android

Hi, In the last 10 days, we have done two new releases for Android smartphones: v1.5 * Fix regression in suggestions (impacting non-latin alphabets) * Speed-up a little bit the "night mode" * Fix color issue with searchbox (impacting only a few devices) * Show software version in "options" * Mult

Re: [Offline-l] How important is ZIM support in Collections?

Hi Erik This is great to see you speaking about this now. Le 13/11/2013 06:51, Erik Moeller a écrit : > how important is ZIM support in Collections (the "Create a book" > feature) on Wikimedia sites? We implemented this a while ago to > support offline efforts. Since collections are still typical

Re: [Offline-l] How important is ZIM support in Collections?

Dear Bjoern First of all, thank you very much for your email. This shows that this topic is not only about our Wikimedia project, but also about many other Mediawiki users. I will try to answer to the ZIM related part of your message. Le 13/11/2013 12:42, Bjoern Hassler a écrit : > '''Scenario 2

[Offline-l] zimwriterfs, a new easy tool to create ZIM file yourself

Hi, I have finished to code a first version of a tool allowing to compile a ZIM file based on a local directory with HTML content. This tool is called zimwriterfs. The tool is fast and pretty easy to use and to compile. I would appreciate if people would test it and give me a few feedbacks: https

Re: [Offline-l] Kiwix for OER4Schools, was Re: How important is ZIM support in Collections?

Hi Bjoern Le 13/11/2013 14:03, Bjoern Hassler a écrit : >>> * '''Offline access:''' We'd love to have some advice how we can >> We have a still in dev, but already working solution for ZIM incremental >> update. This should be available for users in a few months. But, as far >> as I can see, you m

Re: [Offline-l] How important is ZIM support in Collections?

Le 14/11/2013 08:44, Erik Moeller a écrit : > NB - we did run some numbers, and we're currently getting at most ~100 > ZIM downloads/day from collections, across all wikis combined. Nice to know. This is really not so much. I don't know how it is for other formats but we certainly can do a lot bet

[Offline-l] Kiwix for Android Google Code-in tasks for young and talented developers

Hi, Google Code-in program has started yesterday. Kiwix, with other Wikimedia FOSS projects, has proposed a few "small" (few days work) tasks. Our tasks focus on the improvement of the new Kiwix for Android app. Young and talented developers with skills in compilation, Java, Javascript are more t

Re: [Offline-l] Best script for static html of a mediawiki

Le 19/11/2013 19:13, Bjoern Hassler a écrit : > I'd like to ask a follow-up question to this. What do you guys use for > converting html to pdf (on the command line)? Let's say once Parsoid > has generated html5, how do you get it into pdf? I've used (and > struggled) a bit with wkpdf and enscript

Re: [Offline-l] Best script for static html of a mediawiki

Le 21/11/2013 21:54, Bjoern Hassler a écrit : > Yes, I have tried it, and got a very large, unpaginated image of it. > > Would you possibly be able to send me the url for the page your tried > (off list), as well as the output? (Perhaps plus the version of > phantomjs, OS, and the js script or a l

Re: [Offline-l] Best script for static html of a mediawiki

Le 22/11/2013 14:51, Bjoern Hassler a écrit : > I've tried this out on Raspberry Pi, and indeed the output is a proper pdf. Nice. > Do you have any thoughts as to why the paper size comes out as 10cm by > 77cm? I don't know phantomjs in detail, but if you have a look to the code, you can see th

[Offline-l] Release of Kiwix for Android v.16

Hi, last week we have released a new version of Kiwix for Android which includes a few new features. Most of them were coded by young students participating to the Google Code-in program: * New "share with friends" button * New "fullscreen" feature * New 'back to top" button * Better search sugge

Re: [Offline-l] kiwix beta

Hi Rupert, You are right, we will use this feature of the Android Play store for release 1.8. Regards Emmanuel Le 17/12/2013 10:15, rupert THURNER a écrit : > hi, > > would it be possible to have a second upload to google play store > called "kiwix beta" to allow easier testing of new features.

Re: [Offline-l] download or create a book on android-4.1, chrome, not possible

Le 17/12/2013 23:48, rupert THURNER a écrit : > hi, sorry for crossposting this, but i am a little lost whom to ask. > erik mentioned some time ago how important zim support is in > collections, and mentioned that there are barely downloads. very > rarely i get my hands on a new enought android ver

[Offline-l] Kiwix for Android 1.7 released

Hi, Thank to the Google Code-in program, we can do a new release every three weeks. This one is the "Ahmad" release, named after the German student who has developed most of the following new features: * NEW Tabs system * NEW "scanner" tool for the filepicker * NEW UI language chooser * NEW UI sup

[Offline-l] Testers needed for new Kiwix 0.9rc3 (Windows/OSX/Linux/Sugar) release

Hi We are almost ready to release a new version of Kiwix (for Windows/OSX/Linux/Sugar). This release will be called 0.9rc3 and provides a few fixes/improvements to the current 0.9rc2. The most important fixes/improvements are: * Global improvement of kiwix-serve * Better data structure (easie

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