From: <chr...@ev...> - 2015-04-18 11:01:57
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Hi all, I'm writing on behalf of the developers of Evopedia, another free and open source offline Wikipedia reader: http://www.evopedia.info Its goals are more or less aligned with those of Kiwix, but it uses another archive format. The project is currently stale, mainly because of a lack of contributors, and we would actually like to recommend Kiwix as a perfect alternative to Evopedia to our community. But still, some community members value some features of Evopedia which Kiwix does not provide (to our knowledge): 1. Evopedia scans Wikipedia articles for geo coordinates and can show "articles around you" and some versions also support a map of articles 2. Evopedia has a javascript implementation of the archive format reader, which allows to run it on Firefox OS (see https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/evopedia, and the source code: https://github.com/mossroy/evopedia-html5). It should allow to run it on virtually any device/OS with the same code (through Apache Cordova: it has been only partially implemented so far). What are your thoughts on these features? Are they planned (or perhaps even already present)? If no, what would you think about adding them to Kiwix? If we find some time ourselves, would you support us adding those features? Best regards, Christian. |