A few of us met to discuss offline roadmaps and challenges today, and
noting that no user gropu exists [and that other overviews of offline
projects on Meta are a bit out of date] we started a user group. This is a
very low-overhead group to provide a name for the network of all offline
projects.
Please add links to your own active projects from this page.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_wiki_user_group
SJ
Hi all,
A quick note to announce that Kiwix and the Wikimedia Foundation have decided to enter a more formal partnership to replace the limited, project-based approach we had until now. The official announcement is here:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/07/18/wikimedia-foundation-and-kiwix-partne…
The TL;DR of it is that we'll be able to continue to build on the massive improvements we made over the past 18 months. We have 3 million users, and there are 4 billion people without reliable access: there certainly is room for more growth.
This is a first, small step, but an important one : for this year we'll focus on improving user experience, and make it easier for people to access content offline (aka zim farm). If this works well, I'd like us to look into incremental updates as early as next year.
Thanks to everyone on this list that helped make it happen!
Emmanuel and Stephane
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
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