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From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2018-12-01 16:47:40
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Thx, yes, the MWoffliner Docker image should have been updated. On 28.11.18 14:49, Tim Moody wrote: > Congratulations. This looks like a lot of progress. > > Are the docker images still valid? > > > > Subject: [Kiwix-developer] [OPENZIM] MWoffliner 1.6 released > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kiwix-developer mailing list > Kiw...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kiwix-developer > -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication |
From: Tim M. <ti...@ti...> - 2018-11-28 14:18:37
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Congratulations. This looks like a lot of progress. Are the docker images still valid? > > > Subject: [Kiwix-developer] [OPENZIM] MWoffliner 1.6 released > > |
From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2018-11-28 07:19:25
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Hi We have published a new version of MWoffliner: the Mediawiki scraper. Version 1.6.0 is - like always - available here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/mwoffliner This new release contains mainly fixing an code improvements, in particular for non-Wikimedia sites. Here is the detailed changelog: * FIX: Template referencing #421 * FIX: Generated files are more no-js friendly #324 * FIX: Added top level section when it doesn't exist in API Response #180 * FIX: Fixed --addNamespace #338 * FIX: CSS Image issue #418 * UPDATE: Implemented PDF downloads #338 * UPDATE: Added mwmatrixoffliner tests * UPDATE: Added git revision to version log #426 * UPDATE: Normalised Resources and Templates * UPDATE: Strip HTML from title tags #159 * UPDATE: Improved Error Handling * UPDATE: Converted to TypeScript #386 This is the first milestone of a few we have planned with the support of the WMF, here is the roadmap: https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner/milestones?direction=asc&sort=title&state=open Like always, PR and bug reports are welcome at: https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner Regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication |
From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2018-10-28 14:58:35
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Thx, which ticket are you exactly talking about? On 28.10.18 14:20, Tim Moody wrote: > Congratulations. A long time coming, but a very welcome improvement. > > Do we get categories next? :) > > On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 8:16 AM > <kiw...@li... > <mailto:kiw...@li...>> wrote: > > Send Kiwix-developer mailing list submissions to > kiw...@li... > <mailto:kiw...@li...> > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kiwix-developer > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > kiw...@li... > <mailto:kiw...@li...> > > You can reach the person managing the list at > kiw...@li... > <mailto:kiw...@li...> > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Kiwix-developer digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. [OPENZIM][KIWIX] New offline version of the Gutenberg project > (Emmanuel Engelhart) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 16:38:56 +0200 > From: Emmanuel Engelhart <ke...@ki... <mailto:ke...@ki...>> > To: Using Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki offline > <off...@li... > <mailto:off...@li...>>, Project Gutenberg Volunteer > Discussion <gut...@li... > <mailto:gut...@li...>> > Cc: Mailing list for Wikimedia CH <wik...@li... > <mailto:wik...@li...>>, > "kiw...@li... > <mailto:kiw...@li...>" > <kiw...@li... > <mailto:kiw...@li...>>, > "kiw...@li... > <mailto:kiw...@li...>" > <kiw...@li... > <mailto:kiw...@li...>> > Subject: [Kiwix-developer] [OPENZIM][KIWIX] New offline version of the > Gutenberg project > Message-ID: <168...@ki... > <mailto:168...@ki...>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi > > We finally have generated new offline versions of the famous Gutenberg > project library which has almost 60.000 free ebooks. See > https://www.gutenberg.org/. > > This version provides of course more books than ever before, but also > fixes many bugs which were impacting the scrapper or the user interface. > We have extended the number of UI supported languages and fulltext > search is now provided natively with Kiwix - no need to compute an > external fulltext index. > > The offline versions are available like usual in the ZIM format. More > details about the ZIM format and the openZIM project at > http://www.openzim.org/ > > You can easily download one ZIM file with all the Gutenberg project > books in all languages: > * via HTTP: https://download.kiwix.org/zim/gutenberg_mul_all.zim > * via BitTorrent: > https://download.kiwix.org/zim/gutenberg_mul_all.zim.torrent > * Language specific files at https://download.kiwix.org/zim/ > * rsync or FTP are also supported. > > These ZIM files are readable wherever you want and on almost all kinds > of devices thanks the multiple Kiwix ports, pick yours at > http://www.kiwix.org/ or on your preferred app store. > > If you are curious and want just to have a look, please visit your > library at https://library.kiwix.org/gutenberg_mul_all_2018-10/. > > For tech people, all the scrapper is open source and maintained. > Join us: > * https://github.com/openzim/gutenberg > * https://pypi.org/project/gutenberg2zim/ > * https://hub.docker.com/r/openzim/gutenberg/ > > We hope you will enjoy it! > > Regards > Emmanuel > > -- > Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more > * Web: http://www.kiwix.org > * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline > * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: signature.asc > Type: application/pgp-signature > Size: 195 bytes > Desc: OpenPGP digital signature > > ------------------------------ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Kiwix-developer mailing list > Kiw...@li... > <mailto:Kiw...@li...> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kiwix-developer > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Kiwix-developer Digest, Vol 56, Issue 2 > ********************************************** > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kiwix-developer mailing list > Kiw...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kiwix-developer > -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication |
From: Tim M. <ti...@ti...> - 2018-10-28 13:52:43
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Congratulations. A long time coming, but a very welcome improvement. Do we get categories next? :) On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 8:16 AM < kiw...@li...> wrote: > Send Kiwix-developer mailing list submissions to > kiw...@li... > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kiwix-developer > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > kiw...@li... > > You can reach the person managing the list at > kiw...@li... > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Kiwix-developer digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. [OPENZIM][KIWIX] New offline version of the Gutenberg project > (Emmanuel Engelhart) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 16:38:56 +0200 > From: Emmanuel Engelhart <ke...@ki...> > To: Using Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki offline > <off...@li...>, Project Gutenberg Volunteer > Discussion <gut...@li...> > Cc: Mailing list for Wikimedia CH <wik...@li...>, > "kiw...@li..." > <kiw...@li...>, > "kiw...@li..." > <kiw...@li...> > Subject: [Kiwix-developer] [OPENZIM][KIWIX] New offline version of the > Gutenberg project > Message-ID: <168...@ki...> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi > > We finally have generated new offline versions of the famous Gutenberg > project library which has almost 60.000 free ebooks. See > https://www.gutenberg.org/. > > This version provides of course more books than ever before, but also > fixes many bugs which were impacting the scrapper or the user interface. > We have extended the number of UI supported languages and fulltext > search is now provided natively with Kiwix - no need to compute an > external fulltext index. > > The offline versions are available like usual in the ZIM format. More > details about the ZIM format and the openZIM project at > http://www.openzim.org/ > > You can easily download one ZIM file with all the Gutenberg project > books in all languages: > * via HTTP: https://download.kiwix.org/zim/gutenberg_mul_all.zim > * via BitTorrent: > https://download.kiwix.org/zim/gutenberg_mul_all.zim.torrent > * Language specific files at https://download.kiwix.org/zim/ > * rsync or FTP are also supported. > > These ZIM files are readable wherever you want and on almost all kinds > of devices thanks the multiple Kiwix ports, pick yours at > http://www.kiwix.org/ or on your preferred app store. > > If you are curious and want just to have a look, please visit your > library at https://library.kiwix.org/gutenberg_mul_all_2018-10/. > > For tech people, all the scrapper is open source and maintained. Join us: > * https://github.com/openzim/gutenberg > * https://pypi.org/project/gutenberg2zim/ > * https://hub.docker.com/r/openzim/gutenberg/ > > We hope you will enjoy it! > > Regards > Emmanuel > > -- > Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more > * Web: http://www.kiwix.org > * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline > * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: signature.asc > Type: application/pgp-signature > Size: 195 bytes > Desc: OpenPGP digital signature > > ------------------------------ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Kiwix-developer mailing list > Kiw...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kiwix-developer > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Kiwix-developer Digest, Vol 56, Issue 2 > ********************************************** > |
From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2018-10-27 14:46:58
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Hi We finally have generated new offline versions of the famous Gutenberg project library which has almost 60.000 free ebooks. See https://www.gutenberg.org/. This version provides of course more books than ever before, but also fixes many bugs which were impacting the scrapper or the user interface. We have extended the number of UI supported languages and fulltext search is now provided natively with Kiwix - no need to compute an external fulltext index. The offline versions are available like usual in the ZIM format. More details about the ZIM format and the openZIM project at http://www.openzim.org/ You can easily download one ZIM file with all the Gutenberg project books in all languages: * via HTTP: https://download.kiwix.org/zim/gutenberg_mul_all.zim * via BitTorrent: https://download.kiwix.org/zim/gutenberg_mul_all.zim.torrent * Language specific files at https://download.kiwix.org/zim/ * rsync or FTP are also supported. These ZIM files are readable wherever you want and on almost all kinds of devices thanks the multiple Kiwix ports, pick yours at http://www.kiwix.org/ or on your preferred app store. If you are curious and want just to have a look, please visit your library at https://library.kiwix.org/gutenberg_mul_all_2018-10/. For tech people, all the scrapper is open source and maintained. Join us: * https://github.com/openzim/gutenberg * https://pypi.org/project/gutenberg2zim/ * https://hub.docker.com/r/openzim/gutenberg/ We hope you will enjoy it! Regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication |
From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2018-10-02 10:51:22
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Hi Aditya On 28.09.2018 08:41, Aditya Sood wrote: > I wanted to know if there's an existing project policy on documentation > of the kiwix-android code AFAIK nothing which is already in the code repo. > The current code base has got barely any comments to explain the vast > number of features, so I was wondering if contributors are/can be > allowed to add snippets of info about the working of existing code as > they go about writing their own code. They are. You can also make pull requests in that direction. > This way, the collective effort of all of us will provide the current > and future contributors a minimal level of guidance as they go about > their work; because right now, I doubt whether the majority of > contributors are well versed enough with the project to have a good idea > about what all the modules (& their methods) do > > Would love to hear your opinions/suggestions on this The whole code base is a work in progress. Any help to make the code clearer (with or without comment) is welcome. Regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication |
From: Aditya S. <soo...@gm...> - 2018-09-28 06:42:08
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Hello everyone I wanted to know if there's an existing project policy on documentation of the kiwix-android code The current code base has got barely any comments to explain the vast number of features, so I was wondering if contributors are/can be allowed to add snippets of info about the working of existing code as they go about writing their own code. This way, the collective effort of all of us will provide the current and future contributors a minimal level of guidance as they go about their work; because right now, I doubt whether the majority of contributors are well versed enough with the project to have a good idea about what all the modules (& their methods) do Would love to hear your opinions/suggestions on this Best Regards Aditya Sood |
From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2018-09-20 10:02:49
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Hi We just have published a new maintenance release of our Javascript based Kiwix ports for Chrome & Firefox browsers, Windows mobile and Xbox devices as for UBports (Ubuntu Touch). As a reminder, these ports are not full featured like native code based Kiwix ports and might be a bit slower, but offer other nice properties, like for example an excellent portability. Kiwix JS 2.3.1 Changelog: * Fix excessive memory consumption * Fix SVG file handling * Add favicon You can find the new Browser extensions: * Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kiwix/donaljnlmapmngakoipdmehbfcioahhk * Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kiwix-offline/ Update is also available on the Microsoft app store for the Kiwix JS Windows reader and a few custom apps, see: * https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/kiwix-js/9p8slz4j979j * https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/wikimed/9phjsnp1cz8j * https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/wikivoyage-by-kiwix/9n5sb90q4jbj Work continues on our forge at https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-js and https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-js-windows. Regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication |
From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2018-09-09 14:42:09
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Hi Like most of you probably know, an intensive effort is currently led to replace our oldest piece of software: Kiwix Desktop 0.9 for Windows/MacOS/Linux. We will skip the version 1.0 because this is full rewriting of the UI, using a new approach and a new UI design. This time, we have decided to propose a MacOS version using Apple native UI components and we have achieve to make it :) It is now available on iTunes http://macos.kiwix.org/. You can also download it from here https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-desktop-macos/kiwix-desktop-macos_2.0.dmg. This version for MacOS does not offer all the features which were available in 0.9 but is a lot more stable and works fine so far we know. It is also really easy to install thanks to the availability on iTunes. More advanced features (in particular the content management) will come back later in 2019. Please report any problem to https://github.com/kiwix/apple/issues. For Windows and Linux, we are almost at the same stage, we just have published an alpha3 version here: https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-desktop/. Like for MacOS, it is still not full-featured, but our ambition is to release the 2.0 for end of October with the content manager included. Please give it a try and share your feedback here: https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-desktop/issues. I'll keep you inform in the next weeks about further test releases. Regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication |
From: Andre K. <akl...@wi...> - 2018-09-07 16:06:20
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<tl;dr>: Read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors and add your name to the mentors table and start tagging #GCI-2018 tasks. We'll need MANY mentors and MANY tasks, otherwise we cannot make it. Google Code-in is an annual contest for 13-17 year old students. It will take place from Oct23 to Dec13. It's not only about coding: we also need tasks about design, docs, outreach/research, QA. Last year, 300 students worked on 760 tasks supported by 51 mentors. For some achievements from last round, see https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/20/wikimedia-google-code-in-2017/ While we wait whether Wikimedia will get accepted: * You have small, self-contained bugs you'd like to see fixed? * Your documentation needs specific improvements? * Your user interface has some smaller design issues? * Your Outreachy/Summer of Code project welcomes small tweaks? * You'd enjoy helping someone port your template to Lua? * Your gadget code uses some deprecated API calls? * You have tasks in mind that welcome some research? Note that "beginner tasks" (e.g. "Set up Vagrant") and generic tasks are very welcome (like "Choose and fix 2 PHP7 issues from the list in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120336" style). We also have more than 400 unassigned open #easy tasks listed: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/HCyOonSbFn.z/#R Can you mentor some of those tasks in your area? Please take a moment to find / update [Phabricator etc.] tasks in your project(s) which would take an experienced contributor 2-3 hours. Read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors , ask if you have any questions, and add your name to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/2018#List_of_Wikimedia_mentors (If you have mentored before and have a good overview of our infrastructure: We also need more organization admins! See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Admins ) Thanks (as we cannot run this without your help), andre -- Andre Klapper | ak...@gm... https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ |
From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2018-08-22 18:38:00
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Hi Here are the last mobile maintenance releases. They have been rolled out last week. 1.9.4 for iOS: * NEW: sort languages in library language filter both by count or alphabetically * NEW: search for a zim file by name in library online catalog 2.4 for Android: * FIX: External SD card problems * FIX: Some UI translation * FIX: Download manager process sporadic problems * FIX: Support of most recent 4GB+ ZIM files * NEW: Display download time estimation * NEW: Many improvements in fulltext search * NEW: Allow manual update of storage location * NEW: Sort Bookmarks alphabetically * NEW: Option to download only via WIFI Kiwix for Android still suffers of a massive stability problem in the download feature. Something we plan to fully fix in next version 3.0. Regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication |
From: Samuel K. <me...@gm...> - 2018-07-12 16:28:39
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Fantastic. Thank you for these updates! SJ On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 11:42 AM Emmanuel Engelhart <ke...@ki...> wrote: > Hi > > Two weeks ago we have made a new waves of releases of many core > projects for both openZIM and Kiwix. > > Here are the bits of changelog: > > libzim 4.0.0 > ============ > > * [Writer] Remove a lot of memory copy. > * [Writer] Add xapian indexing directly in libzim. > * [Writer] Better API. > * [Writer] Use multi-threading to write clusters. > > zimwriterfs 1.2 > =============== > > * Revert "Add leading '/' at indexer url. > * Move to meson build system. > * Addapt to new libzim's writer's API. > * Add travic CI. > * Add redirect articles after "normal" articles. > * Explicitly use icu namespace to allow use of packaged icu lib. > * Fix help/log typos. > * Better README. > > zim-tools 1.0.0 > =============== > > * Remove warnings. > * Compile zim-tools with travis. > * Add zim-check tool. > * Addapt zimDiff and zimPatch to new version of libzim writer. > * [zimSplit] Do not create a new ofstream for each part. (Do not need > gcc5) > * Do not use `std::to_string` (Allow compilation with gcc4.8) > > kiwix-lib 2.0.1 > =============== > > * Fix parsing of url. > * Remove unused static resources. > * Correctly decode reserved characters in URLs. > * Explicitly use icu namespace to allow use of packaged icu lib. > > kiwix-tools 0.6.0 > ================= > > * remove kiwix-install tool. > > kiwix-serve > ----------- > > * Improved taskbar #160 > * Fix global page when using the option `--nosearchbar` > * Return 404 for missing resources > * Fix compilation for gcc 4.8. > > kiwix-manage > ------------ > > * Returns proper exit code (not always 0) > > Preparation of next wave has already started :) > > Regards > Emmanuel > > -- > 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 > Off...@li... > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l > -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 |
From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2018-07-08 15:42:32
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Hi Two weeks ago we have made a new waves of releases of many core projects for both openZIM and Kiwix. Here are the bits of changelog: libzim 4.0.0 ============ * [Writer] Remove a lot of memory copy. * [Writer] Add xapian indexing directly in libzim. * [Writer] Better API. * [Writer] Use multi-threading to write clusters. zimwriterfs 1.2 =============== * Revert "Add leading '/' at indexer url. * Move to meson build system. * Addapt to new libzim's writer's API. * Add travic CI. * Add redirect articles after "normal" articles. * Explicitly use icu namespace to allow use of packaged icu lib. * Fix help/log typos. * Better README. zim-tools 1.0.0 =============== * Remove warnings. * Compile zim-tools with travis. * Add zim-check tool. * Addapt zimDiff and zimPatch to new version of libzim writer. * [zimSplit] Do not create a new ofstream for each part. (Do not need gcc5) * Do not use `std::to_string` (Allow compilation with gcc4.8) kiwix-lib 2.0.1 =============== * Fix parsing of url. * Remove unused static resources. * Correctly decode reserved characters in URLs. * Explicitly use icu namespace to allow use of packaged icu lib. kiwix-tools 0.6.0 ================= * remove kiwix-install tool. kiwix-serve ----------- * Improved taskbar #160 * Fix global page when using the option `--nosearchbar` * Return 404 for missing resources * Fix compilation for gcc 4.8. kiwix-manage ------------ * Returns proper exit code (not always 0) Preparation of next wave has already started :) Regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication |
From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2018-06-10 14:21:47
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Hi We have published a new maintenance release of Kiwix for iOS 1.9 branch. Here is the short changelog: - Use Realm in replace of CoreData as database - Added Wiktionary, Wikiquote and Wikisource categories - Fix: unable to detect embedded index in some situations - Fix: unable to cancel erroneous download tasks The app is available on iTunes at http://ios.kiwix.org. Enjoy Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication |
From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2018-06-09 15:39:18
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Hi We just have released updates for our Javascript based Kiwix ports for Chrome & Firefox browsers, Windows mobile and Xbox devices as for UBports (Ubuntu Touch). As a reminder, these ports are not full featured like native code based Kiwix ports and might be a bit slower, but offer other nice properties, like for example an excellent portability. You can find the new Browser extensions: * Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kiwix/donaljnlmapmngakoipdmehbfcioahhk * Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kiwix-offline/ Kiwix JS 2.3.0 Changelog: * Add a cache on CSS stylesheets to improve performance in jQuery mode * Change the technical way to display articles, so that all CSS styles can be loaded, and to avoid other technical issues * Make the content visible only when CSS styles are read, in order to avoir repaints that can be very slow * Fix redirections in ServiceWorker mode in ZIM files like StackExchange, and make the ServiceWorker handle all the articles (including the main one, and the first displayed after a search or random search) * Fix links with an anchor in the URL * In recent wikipedia and other wikimedia ZIM files, open all the sections when using a small screen (mobile stylesheet), so that the content remains readable (it only works in jQuery mode, this should be fixed in ServiceWorker mode in next version) * Fix CSS UTF-8 encoding A full changelog can be found here: https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-js/milestone/18?closed=1 Work continues on our forge at https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-js and https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-js-windows. Hope you will enjoy all or part of these new apps, features and bug fixes. Regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication |
From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2018-05-11 10:46:08
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Hi The Kiwix team is proud to publish the first version of its Kiwix-plug installer (also called Pibox installer). A tool with both command line and graphical user interface to easily setup a Kiwix-plug on a RaspberryPi. Using a PC on Windows/MacOS/Linux and having a good connection to internet, you can with a few mouse clicks configure a SD card for a RaspberryPi3. You then just have to wait (The Windows version is still really slow due to the virtualisation) to get your offline library WIFI hotspot with the content of your choice. Give it a try, just download Kiwix-plug installer from here: https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-plug_installer/v1.0/ Software code is open-source, please open tickets if you have any bug/question/remark: https://framagit.org/ideascube/pibox-installer Do you want to know more? Kiwix plug is a portable server. With it, you can create a local network and deliver content to users. Kiwix plug allows you to share files easily: once they are connected to the Kiwix network, content is available for anybody through their own Web browser. Kiwix-plug has been created 5 years ago and integrated first kiwix-serve, the HTTP daemon serving ZIM files and a custom based set of system scripts and HTML pages. It has been distributed in hundreds of schools and cultural centers, mostly in Africa but not only. This is, for example, the solution on which ran the devices distributed within the WikiFundi project. You can find a few more technical details here http://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Kiwix-plug. Kiwix-plug installer v1.0 is not only a disrupting new way of creating this kind of offline libraries, it is also a new solution motorising the Kiwix-plug. Using Ideascube (https://framagit.org/ideascube/ideascube), we have been able to provide a much nice user interface and fix many of our long standing bugs. Kiwix-plug installer v2.0 is already in development and its release is planned in a few weeks. The features will be really similar, but the overall speed/performance will be greatly improved. We are also working on a cloud version of the Pibox-installer, allowing to create the SD card images from a web page... but we will tell you more about that in an other email :) Regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication |
From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2018-05-09 04:50:40
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Hi We just have released a new version of Kiwix for iOS. New Library Design: * ZIM files are grouped by topic categories * ZIM file detail view * Downloading content and catalog are displayed in one place * On iPads, using a split view with ZIM file / categories on the left and detail on the right Bookmark: * Now displayed as a side panel on iPad * Add / remove bookmark interface is now presented as a HUD and does not cover up all the screen space Reading: * Now ask users for confirmation when opening external links. Can be turned on or off in settings Core: * Massive multiple improvement of the ZIM file mgmt through introduction of Kiwix lib 2.0. iOS: * An effort has been made to keep compatibility with iOS 10. The app is available on iTunes at http://ios.kiwix.org. Enjoy Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication |
From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2018-02-19 23:57:26
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Hi WikiMed, the 50.000 articles big medical Encylcopaedia from Wikipedia is now available on the Microsoft Windows app store: https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9PHJSNP1CZ8J Based on the Kiwix offline technologies, Wikimed for Windows completes the famous WikiMed apps for Android and iOS. But, to the contrary to the other ports, this version is motorized by a pure Javascript engine, similar to the one of Kiwix for Firefox and Chrome. We hope that Windows mobile users will appreciate it... like all other Windows users... They all can easily install it... even on an Xbox! Regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication |
From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2018-01-11 16:58:46
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Hi These last days we have released updates for our Javascript based Kiwix ports. As a reminder, these ports are not full featured like native code based Kiwix ports and might be a bit slower, but offer other nice properties. For example. thanks to their portability, we support systems on which it would be otherwise impossible to have Wikipedia offline... and more. We have released new versions of our extensions for Web browsers, Kiwix JS: * For Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kiwix/donaljnlmapmngakoipdmehbfcioahhk * For Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kiwix-offline/ Kiwix JS 2.2.0 Changelog: * Support for StackExchange ZIM files (and maybe for some other ZIM files with a structure * different than the Mediawiki-based ZIM files). * Compatibility with split English wikipedia ZIM files (which now have more than 26 files). * Rename the project to Kiwix-JS instead of Kiwix-html5. * Slightly improved memory handling of content decompression. * Library updates (jQuery, Bootstrap, requireJS). * Improved continuous integration (automated testing on several browsers). * Avoid unnecessary 404 errors on images. * Minor UI enhancements and fixes. * Some code refactoring/cleaning on the way we handle the jQuery mode. * Make geo: and tel: links work. But we have also updated Kiwix JS for Windows and released the version 0.9.6. It's available here for Windows mobile and almost all Windows based systems: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/kiwix-js/9p8slz4j979j Last but not least, we have also started to release Custom apps for Windows, which mean supporting only one type of content, by creating a Wikivoyage offline app for windows here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/wikivoyage-by-kiwix/9n5sb90q4jbj Hope you will enjoy all or part of these new apps, features and bug fixes. Regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication |
From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2017-11-30 18:40:08
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Hi The whole Kiwix team is proud to announce the first release of Kiwix JS for Windows (mobile) devices. It is available in the Microsoft app store: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/store/p/kiwix-js/9p8slz4j979j Kiwix JS for Windows runs on all recent Windows OSes but is in particular thought for Windows Mobile and all Windows based mobile users for whom we had so far no solution. The app has been developed in the last 6 months based on the Kiwix JS code base already used in Kiwix Firefox and Chrome Web extensions. It is not fully featured like Kiwix for Android or iOS and is a bit slower... but it is still really easy to use and can read all ZIM files. We really hope it will find its public and that we will be supported with feedbacks. Regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication |
From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2017-11-26 18:52:02
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----- Une version en français de cette annonce est disponible ici: http://www.kiwix.org/fr/stagiaire-c-qt-6-mois/ ----- Hi Kiwix is a 10 years old software suite developed to give access to Web content to people with no Internet access. It works a bit like a digital offline library. Its older piece, Kiwix desktop, is a classic desktop application for Windows and Linux which reads data files with the extension *.zim. It displays the content like a Web browser would do. Based on the deprecated Xulrunner framework of Mozilla, Kiwix desktop has now reached it end of lifecycle and also urgently needs a full revamping of its user interface, using the Qt windowing library. As far as features go, the new version of kiwix-desktop should more or less offer the same functionalities as the older version: * Portable on Windows/Linux * Internationalization and localization support * Remote and local library management * Loading, displaying an searching in the ZIM files * Tabulations * Bookmarking/reading list Most of the application’s “core” already exists as a software library called Kiwix library. Most of the work is about binding it with a new – and yet to be created – user interface. You would work in close collaboration with a UX expert/UI designer and with the C++ developer of the core library kiwix-lib. This work is part of a more global effort to improve the Kiwix software as a whole. You are a developer committed to (or at least familiar with) open source software, and familiar with GNU/Linux. You already have a small working experience with Qt and C++ (on personal projects for example). Ideally you will to share, explain, and demonstrate a past project (for example on Github). This internship is paid ~1000€/month and takes place in Lyon, France. The work will be organised and framed by an experienced developer familiar with the project. Candidates interested by this internship should send an email (cover letter and CV) to Matthieu Gautier (mgautier at kymeria.fr). Here is the online version of this open position: http://www.kiwix.org/internship-c-qt-6-months/ Regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication |
From: Andre K. <akl...@wi...> - 2017-10-16 12:54:49
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Google Code-in is an annual contest for 13-17 year old students. It will take place from Nov28 to Jan17 and is not only about coding tasks. While we wait whether Wikimedia will get accepted: * You have small, self-contained bugs you'd like to see fixed? * Your documentation needs specific improvements? * Your user interface has small design issues? * Your Outreachy/Summer of Code project welcomes small tweaks? * You'd enjoy helping someone port your template to Lua? * Your gadget code uses some deprecated API calls? * You have tasks in mind that welcome some research? Also note that "Beginner tasks" (e.g. "Set up Vagrant" etc) and "generic" tasks are very welcome (e.g. "Choose & fix 2 PHP7 issues from the list in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120336 "). Because we will need hundreds of tasks. :) And we also have more than 400 unassigned open 'easy' tasks listed: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/HCyOonSbFn.z/#R Would you be willing to mentor some of those in your area? Please take a moment to find / update [Phabricator etc.] tasks in your project(s) which would take an experienced contributor 2-3 hours. Check https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors and please ask if you have any questions! For some achievements from last round, see https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/02/03/google-code-in/ Thanks!, andre -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ |
From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2017-08-03 21:29:55
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Hi I want to announce here the publication of new datasets to easy make selections of Wikipedia articles. This data can be used by any developer or tech-friendly guy to create subset of Wikipedia. You can find the data here: http://download.kiwix.org/wp1/ (or via FTP). This data repository will be kept up-to-date every month thanks to a few scripts which are published here: https://github.com/openzim/wp1_selection_tools. Of course, everything is free software. For each of the 500.000+ Wikipedias, you can find there TSV tables which contain usual indicators of importance for each article: like number of interlanguage links, number of links pointing to an articles, pageviews, ... All gathered in one file. For the Wikipedia in English you will benefit in addition of the Wikiproject importance/quality evaluations. If you are really lazy, there is a "score" file which mix all these indicators to give a unique score number per article. The methodology is described here https://github.com/openzim/wp1_selection_tools. For example, if you want tje TOP1000 articles of Wikipedia, just take the first thousand lines of the "score" file to get your list of articles. All this work has been done to allow the creation of TOP Wikipedia articles ZIM files. It has also been done to make possible the creation of ZIM extension files, a concept we want to develop to improve our WikiMed Android apps. Both of them will appear before the end of the year. Stay tuned! Regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication |
From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2017-06-28 20:47:14
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Hi We are happy to announce the release of libzim 2.0.0. Here are the major changes: * Move to meson build system (instead of autotools) * Move to C++11 standard. * Embedded fulltext search using Xapian (optional). * Remove bzip2 support. * Remove Symbian support. * Few API changes The source tarball can be found here: http://www.openzim.org/download/libzim-2.0.0.tar.gz You can also have a look directly to the git repository: https://github.com/openzim/libzim Kind regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication |