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From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2022-03-11 12:01:43
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Hi I remark that it seems it makes a year a half that we don't have post posted here news about Kiwix JS. It is a pity, because this is one of our most active code repository! On the top of this, we just have released version 3.3.1 of all Web Browser extensions (Firefox, Chrome & Edge) and Kiwix JS for Windows. You can find the latest version of Kiwix JS Browser extensions: * Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kiwix/donaljnlmapmngakoipdmehbfcioahhk * Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kiwix-offline/ * Edge: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/kiwix/jlepddlenlljlnnhjinfaciabanbnjbp Here are the recent changelogs: Kiwix-JS v3.3.0 * FIX: Improve packaging for the Ubuntu Touch app * FEATURE: Provided a workaround to enable Service Worker mode in Firefox extensions (via a PWA) * NEW: App now defaults to Service Worker mode if accessed directly as a PWA (does not apply to browser extensions) * NEW: Support for non-http URLs in img and link tags (e.g. data: javascript:) in JQuery mode * NEW: Added helpful tooltips to icons and settings in the app * FIX: Scrolling to anchor targets in JQuery mode * FIX: Caching of ZIM assets now includes any required query string in SW mode * FIX: Any favicon declared by the ZIM is now extracted and attached in JQuery mode * BUGFIX: Incorrect processing of titles with question marks or hashes prevented display of some articles Kiwix-JS v3.2.0 * NEW: Support latest format of ZIM archives (with no namespace) * NEW: Optimization of title search by eliminating redundancies * NEW: Support new format of title listings (v1) in no-namespace ZIM archives * NEW: Use fast binary WASM decoders with fallback to ASM if necessary * UPDATE: Clearer and more extensive documentation for end users in About * BUGFIX: Issue with calculation for selection of random articles Kiwix-JS v3.1.0 * NEW: Low-level block cache significantly improves binary search speed, and can speed up resource loading in most browsers * NEW: Archives with WebP-encoded images are now decoded in legacy browsers via a polyfill * UPDATE: Images are now extracted sequentially in jQuery mode from the top of the DOM * BUGFIX: Running binary searches are now cancelled completely if user enters new search term or navigates away The full Changelog can be found here: https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-js/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md We have already started to release ZIM files "without namesapces" and this version 3.2.0+ is mandatory if you want to enjoy them with Kiwix JS. All our Windows apps based on Kiwix JS have been updated in Microsoft App Store too. You can enjoy our apps on all Windows based devices (mobiles, tablets, PC, Xbox, ...): * Wikivoyage: https://www.microsoft.com/fr-ch/p/wikivoyage-by-kiwix/9n5sb90q4jbj * Wikimed: https://www.microsoft.com/fr-ch/p/wikimed/9phjsnp1cz8j * Kiwix: https://www.microsoft.com/fr-ch/p/kiwix-js/9p8slz4j979j Please report any problem. 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 |
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From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2020-10-18 12:51:49
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Hi We just have released version 3.0.0 of Kiwix JS browser extensions for Firefox, Chrome & Edge and Kiwix JS for Windows. 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/ * Edge: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/kiwix/jlepddlenlljlnnhjinfaciabanbnjbp Kiwix JS 3.0.0 Changelog: * NEW: Add support for reading ZIM archives compressed with the zstandard compression algorithm * UPDATE: Make Privacy Policy publicly accessible We have already started to release Zstandard based ZIM files and this new version is mandatory if you want to enjoy them with Kiwix JS. All our Windows apps based on Kiwix JS have been updated in Microsoft App Store. You can enjoy our apps on all Windows based devices (mobiles, tablets, PC, Xbox, ...): * Wikivoyage: https://www.microsoft.com/fr-ch/p/wikivoyage-by-kiwix/9n5sb90q4jbj * Wikimed: https://www.microsoft.com/fr-ch/p/wikimed/9phjsnp1cz8j * Kiwix: https://www.microsoft.com/fr-ch/p/kiwix-js/9p8slz4j979j Please report any problem. 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 |
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From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2020-09-28 08:59:03
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Hi The ZIM format relies on third party compression algorithms to provide the best user experience. This means, high compression level, quick decompression, high portability, etc. Overtime the ZIM has used gzip, bzip2 and since almost 10 years the lzma2 version of the xz library. Time to time new modern compression algorithms are created and we use to evaluate them to see if this would bring a significant improvement for our users. Usually it would not be worth the effort of switching, but this has been different in the case of Zstandard (zstd). The key advantage is that zstd offers a higher decompression speed for a similar (to lzma) compression ratio. That means articles are displayed even quicker than before and the energy consumption is a lot less. You can read the whole discussion at https://github.com/openzim/libzim/issues/84. The decision of switching from lzma to xz has been made earlier this year and actually most of our Kiwix ports have been able to read zstd based ZIM files since more than a quarter. We are approaching now the end of the transition stage for Kiwix readers and therefore we will soon (during October) start to publish ZIM files using the new compression zstd. For 99% of the users this move will be totally transparent and they should only notice the reading/searching speed-up. For the 1% left a few things have to be considered: * If you can not read a new ZIM file, please update to the latest version of your (Kiwix) reader (this is always a good advice). * For all non Kiwix readers, but still libzim based, these readers should be re-compiled/re-released with the latest libzim. * For users relying on ZIM files but not on the libzim/Kiwix software stack, the software needs to be fixed. We don't plan so far to discontinued the support of lzma compression algorithm even if we discouraged to use it as zstd is simply always better. Older ZIM files are still perfectly readable, and this won't change in the next couple of years. Regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: https://kiwix.org/ * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * Wiki: https://wiki.kiwix.org/ |
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From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2020-07-16 15:38:19
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Hi We just have released version 2.8.0 of Kiwix JS browser extensions for Firefox & Chrome and Kiwix JS for Windows. 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/ From now we publish as well a version of Microsoft Edge Browser: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/kiwix-js/jlepddlenlljlnnhjinfaciabanbnjbp Kiwix JS 2.8.0 Changelog: * NEW: Intelligently select the best Storage API for storing settings between sessions (cookie or localStorage) * NEW: Display title search results progressively instead of waiting for search to complete before displaying them * NEW: User can change depth of title search from Configuration * UPDATE: Better handling of case in title search, returning more accurate search results * UPDATE: Use const to declare constants, enabling better app memory management * UPDATE: Use SameSite=Strict for any residual cookie usage to conform to new security standards * BUGFIX: Major blocking bug causing high memory usage and slow load times when reading MIME type table of recent ZIM archives All our Windows apps based on Kiwix JS have been updated in Microsoft App Store. You can enjoy our apps on all Windows based devices (mobiles, tablets, PC, Xbox, ...): * Wikivoyage: https://www.microsoft.com/fr-ch/p/wikivoyage-by-kiwix/9n5sb90q4jbj * Wikimed: https://www.microsoft.com/fr-ch/p/wikimed/9phjsnp1cz8j * Kiwix: https://www.microsoft.com/fr-ch/p/kiwix-js/9p8slz4j979j Please report any problem. 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 |
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From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2019-09-13 10:42:13
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Hi Wilfredo On 12.09.19 20:37, Wilfredo Rodríguez wrote: > I have received some messages from Cuba requesting help to install Kiwix > and its wikipedia package in Spanish on Ubuntu. > > The main problem comes when the user can download and burn a CD on a > public machine but he does not have Internet on his computer, that is, > carrying the ZIM file does not represent any problem, however, > installing kiwix on linux offline It represents another level of > complexity especially in the installation process during the > installation when dependencies are being resolved (this could be a > nightmare down dependencies manually). The problem of a CD should not be different from an USB flash drive. We have created a documentation about how to do that for GNU/Linux and Windows a few days ago: https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-desktop/wiki/Kiwix-desktop-on-an-USB-Drive-(Portable-version) Hope that helps Regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication |
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From: renaud g. <rg...@gm...> - 2019-09-13 07:29:05
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Wilfredo, The latest Kiwix-desktop (http://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-desktop/) is portable-only at the moment and the process of having a debian/ubuntu package is ongoing. So please take a look at this version and check that it meets your needs. renaud On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 6:36 PM Wilfredo Rodríguez <wil...@gm...> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I have received some messages from Cuba requesting help to install Kiwix > and its wikipedia package in Spanish on Ubuntu. > > The main problem comes when the user can download and burn a CD on a > public machine but he does not have Internet on his computer, that is, > carrying the ZIM file does not represent any problem, however, installing > kiwix on linux offline It represents another level of complexity especially > in the installation process during the installation when dependencies are > being resolved (this could be a nightmare down dependencies manually). > > This is a recurring problem and I have received several messages, so far I > have not found any solution. I've been thinking about maybe a live cd > version with kiwix. I would like to hear your suggestions. > > Thank you. > > > *Wilfredo Rodríguez* > _______________________________________________ > Offline-l mailing list > Off...@li... > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l > |
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From: Wilfredo R. <wil...@gm...> - 2019-09-12 18:35:46
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Hi guys, I have received some messages from Cuba requesting help to install Kiwix and its wikipedia package in Spanish on Ubuntu. The main problem comes when the user can download and burn a CD on a public machine but he does not have Internet on his computer, that is, carrying the ZIM file does not represent any problem, however, installing kiwix on linux offline It represents another level of complexity especially in the installation process during the installation when dependencies are being resolved (this could be a nightmare down dependencies manually). This is a recurring problem and I have received several messages, so far I have not found any solution. I've been thinking about maybe a live cd version with kiwix. I would like to hear your suggestions. Thank you. *Wilfredo Rodríguez* |
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From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2019-07-21 15:34:48
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Hi We just have released version 2.6.0 of Kiwix JS browser extensions for Firefox & Chrome and Kiwix JS for Windows. 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 2.6.0 Changelog: * Support for imagemaps (area tags) in jQuery mode, like for maps in wikivoyage * Enable keyboard selection in search results * Drag and drop support of ZIM files (on desktop) * Support download of epub files (for Gutenberg ZIM files) and some other types of downloads * Generic handling of MIME Types, instead of the previously hard-coded ones * Add explanations and detect when there are CORS issues when running kiwix-js through file:// * Fix for some cache issues in ServiceWorker mode * Some fixes for filenames with question marks, hyperlinks with hashtags, articles with no title, and articles with special characters in their URL Almost at the same time our Windows apps based on Kiwix JS have been updated in Microsoft App Store. You can enjoy our apps on all Windows based devices (mobiles, tablets, PC, Xbox, ...): * Wikivoyage: https://www.microsoft.com/fr-ch/p/wikivoyage-by-kiwix/9n5sb90q4jbj * Wikimed: https://www.microsoft.com/fr-ch/p/wikimed/9phjsnp1cz8j * Kiwix: https://www.microsoft.com/fr-ch/p/kiwix-js/9p8slz4j979j Please report any problem. 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 |
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From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2019-07-10 19:04:51
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Hi We have published a new maintenance release of Kiwix for iOS 1.9 branch. Here is a short changelog: * Fix memory usage issue when performing searches * swift 5.2 * Version bump of libkiwix, realm and SwiftyUserDefaults * Removed third party library ProcedureKit, now use Foundation.OperationQueue to handle async tasks Kiwix for iOS has been conceived for iPhone & iPad devices. The app is available on iTunes at http://ios.kiwix.org. Please share with us problems and remarks: https://github.com/kiwix/apple/issues Enjoy Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication |
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From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2019-07-09 15:47:32
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Hi We have published a new version of MWoffliner: the MediaWiki scraper. This new release contains mostly smaller bug fixes. Here is the detailed changelog: * UPDATE: README improvements (#880) * UPDATE: Smarter and more efficient article fetching * UPDATE: Remove hard-coded font-sizes for headings (#825) * UPDATE: Write categories to 'U' namespace * UPDATE: Redis handling improvements (#448) * UPDATE: Improved code quality & automated testing (#687) * FIX: Implement scraping of <audio> elements * FIX: Thumbnail image fetching on nopic (#867) Version 1.9.4 is - like always - available here: * NodeJS package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/mwoffliner * Docker image: https://hub.docker.com/r/openzim/mwoffliner Around ~10 tickets are still open in our 1.9 milestone: https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner/milestone/11. We plan to make an additional maintenance release before the end of the month and then start the development of MWoffliner 2.0. 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 |
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From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2019-07-07 15:46:01
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Hi Last week we have released Kiwix for Android 2.5. This is a maintenance release, so no new feature, but we have fixed almost 50 bugs around the library and the download manager. As a result, the software is a lot more stable. You can install the last version from the Google Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile Or download the APK: https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-android/2.5.1/ This is only the beginning of a strong effort the Kiwix project (with the help of the Wikimedia Foundation) is putting on our Android ZIM reader. Kiwix for Android 3.0 is next on the schedule and is planned for this summer. 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 |
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From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2019-06-15 15:48:54
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Hi Kiwix-Desktop is our windowed ZIM reader for Windows/MacOS/Linux. For years, it has been our traditional and most famous solution... but it has reached its end-of-life. With the help of the WMF we have been working since months to provide a replacement: Kiwix Desktop 2.0. End of last year we have proposed a first replacement for MacOS: http://macos.kiwix.org/. Today we want to introduce Kiwix Desktop 2.0 for Windows & Linux with the release of its beta5 version. Kiwix Desktop 2.0 main features are: * Windows & Linux * Support new ZIM files with embedded fulltext index * Fulltext search * Suggestion system based on titles * Library with both local & remote content * Ability to search/download/delete ZIM files * Zoom * Fullscreen * Reader list * Tabs * Search in page * ... You can download it: * Windows x86 64 bits: https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-desktop/kiwix-desktop_windows_x64.zip * Linux x86 64 bits: https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-desktop/kiwix-desktop_x86_64.appimage or https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-desktop/org.kiwix.desktop.flatpak. Also available on Flathub https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.kiwix.desktop The RC1 will be published in around 10 days and we plan to release the official 2.0.0 during July. Please give it a try and share your feedbacks at https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-desktop/issues. Developers, the whole open source project is handled at https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-desktop. If you have a look in detail you will see that there is still quite a bit of work to do. We really seek for C++ volunteers to help us improving Kiwix Desktop 2.0. One or two motivated guys would be so welcome to help our professional main developer. Regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication |
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From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2019-06-14 06:12:24
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Hi We have published a new version of MWoffliner: the MediaWiki scraper. Version 1.9.3 is - like always - available here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/mwoffliner This new release contains mostly smaller bug fixes. Here is the detailed changelog: * FIX: coordinate retrieval continue bug * FEATURE: add throttled keepalive log (#791) * FEATURE: add scraper metadata to ZIM file (#787) * UPDATE: only collect relevant redirects (#790) * UPDATE: disable quirks mode for article html (#717) * UPDATE: improve no-image articlelist home page (#759) * UPDATE: subsections open by default (#786) We plan to focus on fixing bugs in a few following maintenance releases. Around ~30 tickets are still open in our milestone: https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner/milestone/11 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 |
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From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2019-06-05 14:25:39
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Hi We have published a new version of MWoffliner: the MediaWiki scraper. Version 1.9 is - like always - available here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/mwoffliner This new release contains again big improvements in term of performance. MWoffliner 1.9 does require a lot less memory than in earlier version thanks to the release of new libzim 5.0.0 which happens a few days ago. Beside this a new experimental feature as been introduced: the scraping of categories. Here is the detailed changelog: * NEW: Implement basic category scraping (#15) * UPDATE: Update node-libzim (and libzim) to improve memory usage (#706) * UPDATE: Increase default scrape "speed" (#744) * UPDATE: Report on failed article downloads () * UPDATE: Retry all failed media downloads at the end of scrape (#723) * UPDATE: Re-introduce --useCache option (#700) * UPDATE: Reduce system dependencies (#681) * UPDATE: Use native <details> element for collapsible sections in ZIM files (#677) * FIX: Update article title logic (#605) * FIX: Logging format improvements (#662) * FIX: Redis clearing improved (#732, #731, #448) * FIX: Text only article list main page background colour fixed (#728) * FIX: Resource relative url improvement (#726) This is the fourth milestone of a few we have planned with the support of the WMF. 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 |
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From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2019-05-15 07:39:30
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Hi We have published a new maintenance release of Kiwix for iOS 1.9 branch. Here is a short changelog: * updated user feedback email address * dropped support for external indexes * improved iOS 12 support * new version of libkiwix and Swift 4.2 Kiwix for iOS has been conceived for iPhone & iPad devices. The app is available on iTunes at http://ios.kiwix.org. Please share with us problems and remarks: https://github.com/kiwix/apple/issues Enjoy Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication |
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From: Asaf B. <ab...@wi...> - 2019-05-09 04:29:58
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Wonderful news! A. On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 11:35 AM Emmanuel Engelhart <ke...@ki...> wrote: > Hi > > Kiwix has been working since more than 5 years to make Wikipedia and > other works easily available through an offline jailed WiFi Hotspot. The > solution has been named over years "Kiwix Plug" or "Pibox installer 1.0" > and now "Kiwix Hotspot". If the name has changed many times, the efforts > have always been pointed to the same direction: make it always easier > and quicker to create your offline library WiFi Hotspot. > > With Kiwix Hotspot 2.0, we have probably the easiest solution to > get the job done. With a PC, a good connection to internet, you will > need no effort to build your own customized offline library. Whatever > your operating system (Windows/MacOS/Linux) is, even if you have no > technical skills, you can in a few clicks create a ready-to-use micro SD > card for your Raspberry-Pi. > > Features: > * Works on Windows/MacOS/Linux > * Writes SD card image to the hard-disk or directly to the SD card > * Command line & windowed versions > * Full CSS customisable Web home page > * Localisable in a few languages > * Full Kiwix ZIM catalog available > * Online File browser for custom additional files > * Wikifundi > * KA Lite > > Just download and run the software: > * Windows: > > https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-hotspot/v2.0.3/kiwix-hotspot-win64.exe > * MacOS: > > https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-hotspot/v2.0.3/kiwix-hotspot-macos.dmg > * GNU/Linux: > > https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-hotspot/v2.0.3/kiwix-hotspot-linux.tar.gz > > ... The rest is quite easy. In the worse case, we have created a > documentation in English & French which is available here: > https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-hotspot/tree/master/docs > > We really hope this will allow new non-tech people to create offline > library by themselves. > > Work on version 3.0 has already started and should be achieved later > this year. This new version will bring a new fancy UI, customisable at > anytime easily and of course with more education softwares and works. > > Kind 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 > -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org |
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From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2019-05-08 10:36:51
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Hi Kiwix has been working since more than 5 years to make Wikipedia and other works easily available through an offline jailed WiFi Hotspot. The solution has been named over years "Kiwix Plug" or "Pibox installer 1.0" and now "Kiwix Hotspot". If the name has changed many times, the efforts have always been pointed to the same direction: make it always easier and quicker to create your offline library WiFi Hotspot. With Kiwix Hotspot 2.0, we have probably the easiest solution to get the job done. With a PC, a good connection to internet, you will need no effort to build your own customized offline library. Whatever your operating system (Windows/MacOS/Linux) is, even if you have no technical skills, you can in a few clicks create a ready-to-use micro SD card for your Raspberry-Pi. Features: * Works on Windows/MacOS/Linux * Writes SD card image to the hard-disk or directly to the SD card * Command line & windowed versions * Full CSS customisable Web home page * Localisable in a few languages * Full Kiwix ZIM catalog available * Online File browser for custom additional files * Wikifundi * KA Lite Just download and run the software: * Windows: https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-hotspot/v2.0.3/kiwix-hotspot-win64.exe * MacOS: https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-hotspot/v2.0.3/kiwix-hotspot-macos.dmg * GNU/Linux: https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-hotspot/v2.0.3/kiwix-hotspot-linux.tar.gz ... The rest is quite easy. In the worse case, we have created a documentation in English & French which is available here: https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-hotspot/tree/master/docs We really hope this will allow new non-tech people to create offline library by themselves. Work on version 3.0 has already started and should be achieved later this year. This new version will bring a new fancy UI, customisable at anytime easily and of course with more education softwares and works. Kind regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication |
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From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2019-03-16 15:14:03
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Hi Yesterday, in our MWoffliner 1.8.0 release announcement email, I have written about the first libzim official binding of the openZIM project: node-libzim. What I don't have written is that this has been made possible by the previous release of libzim 4.0.5 a few days ago. We release usually new versions of the libzim time to time. Releases which - most of the time - contain minor changes (at least from the user perspective) and mostly used within our openZIM & Kiwix projects. Therefore, we don't make a lot of publicity about them. But, this maintenance release is a bit different. For the first time, we have released binaries and headers for GNU/Linux x86 64 bits. You can find them here: https://download.openzim.org/release/libzim/. It is now easy to build a binding without any hard compilation work, that's what we have done for node-libzim. This is only a first step, we need to go further to offer better opportunities to developers of scrapers. We want in particular to: * Provide libzim binaries for MacOS (and why not for Windows) * Provide a libzim binding in Python (we have a lot of scrapers in Python). Volunteers are really welcome to help make this possible. This would be extremely helpful to provide more & better scrapers. Regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication |
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From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2019-03-15 17:06:02
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Hi We have published a new version of MWoffliner: the MediaWiki scraper. Version 1.8.0 is - like always - available here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/mwoffliner This new release contains big improvements in term of performance. MWoffliner 1.8 does not require anymore zimwriterfs binary and can write directly on-the-fly offline ZIM files. This means far less mass storage usage and a number of IO accesses divided by around 5. Here is the detailed changelog: 1.8.0: * UPDATE: Write ZIM files directly (Using Libzim) #184 * UPDATE: Removed 'tmp' files and directory #448 #575 * UPDATE: Removed --deflateTmpHTML and --tmpDirectory arguments #575 #576 * UPDATE: Implemented better request backoff #496 * UPDATE: Change file names/paths #278 * UPDATE: Removed --writeHtmlRedirects argument #506 * UPDATE: Removed --localMCS option (automatically detect) #490 * UPDATE: Updated documentation #423 * FIX: Other stability, logging and error handling fixes All of this has been made possible because a new software piece in openZIM portfolio: node-libzim. node-libzim is a JavaScript/NodeJS binding of our ZIM format reference library: libzim. It allows quickly to read/write ZIM files directly in JavaScript. The code is available in our code forge at https://github.com/openzim/node-libzim and of course available at npmjs.org: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@openzim/libzim. This is the third milestone of a few we have planned with the support of the WMF. Next one on the list is 1.9 and is planned for end of April. With 1.9 we want to implement the full support of MediaWiki categories. 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 |
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From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2019-01-30 18:36:48
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Hi We just have released version 2.5.0 of Kiwix JS browser extensions for Firefox & Chrome. 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 2.5.0 Changelog: * Support for javascript content inside the ZIM file, only in ServiceWorker mode. Handle noscript tags in jQuery mode, and display a warning when some unhandled javascript is detected * Preliminary support of video/audio content (including subtitles) : these content types are now supported. You can read them for example in TED/TEDx, dirtybiology, oer4schools etc. BUT the main page of these ZIM files needs javascript to work properly, which is only enabled in ServiceWorker mode. In jQuery mode, the user needs to reach the pages through a search * Some technical fixes : footnotes in wikimedia ZIM files (and, more generally, anchors in hyperlinks), incomplete searches in some specific ZIM files (PhET and TED), compatibility with URLs that contain an apostrophe, remove debug logs in ServiceWorker mode * In the UI, replace the spinner by a more modern one 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 |
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From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2019-01-27 16:36:24
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Hi We have published a new version of MWoffliner: the Mediawiki scraper. Version 1.7.0 is - like always - available here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/mwoffliner This new release contains mainly fixing an code improvements, here is the detailed changelog: * UPDATE: Deprecated desktop scraping (not --mobileLayout) * UPDATE: Improve the article list welcome page #449 * UPDATE: Add string translation mechanism #16 * UPDATE: Fetch hundreds of redirects at a time instead of one #325 * UPDATE: Integrated MCS alongside Parsoid #388 #347 #404 * UPDATE: Introduce automated testing #146 * UPDATE: Support remote articleList and favicon #457 * UPDATE: Added --useCache option #263 This is the second milestone of a few we have planned with the support of the WMF. Next one on the list is 1.8 and is planned for begin of March. With 1.8 will get rid of zimwriterfs and write directly ZIM files without temporary files on the hard disk. This will allow substantial speed-ups and need less mass storage during the scraping process. 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 |
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From: Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...> - 2019-01-14 19:01:21
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-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Offline-l] Kiwix is looking for an Android Dev! (60-100%, 6 months) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 16:20:50 +0100 From: Stephane Coillet-Matillon <ste...@ki...> Reply-To: Using Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki offline <off...@li...> To: wik...@li... <wik...@li...>, Using Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki offline <off...@li...>, mob...@li... Hello everyone, We are looking for an experimented Android developer with a good sense for UX to prepare the version 3 of Kiwix Android. This new version would include the following: * Stabilisation of the ZIM download service; * Full revamping of the library UI; * Improve automated testing infrastructure; * Improve continuous integration. The full posting is here: https://www.kiwix.org/android-dev/ If you are interested, or think you know someone who could be interested, feel free to reach out at jo...@ki... <mailto:jo...@ki...> Cheers, Stephane |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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