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 Google Play Store, and launch it;
* Click on the “Open” button, select a ZIM file from the list (from your
device or SD card);
* That’s it! You’re already browsing offline content.
If you don’t already have a ZIM file of Wikipedia, Kiwix leads you to
its online repository so you can download one:
http://kiwix.org/m/
You can also use any of the Books created on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Book
Being a mobile version of a feature-rich desktop software, the Android
version is lightweight. It provides access to the most essential
features: opening and reading a ZIM file, search with auto-completion on
article titles, in-page search, random navigation, zoom in & out.
More details in the Wikimedia Blog post:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/17/carry-the-entirety-of-wikipedia-in-yo…
Emmanuel
Hi
We have released a new beta of the 0.9 branch. This beta fixes mainly many
issues related to Windows, especially with Windows7. Here the complete
CHANGELOG fromhttp://changelog.kiwix.org:
* FIXED: letton language menu item (ID: 3439113)
* FIXED: Duplicates in publisher& language filters in the content
manager (ID: 3439108)
* FIXED: Many localisation files which were broken due to a buggy script
(ID: 3440627)
* FIXED: Wrong behaviour in case of two different portable kiwix
consecutive runs (ID: 3442083)
* FIXED: Different issues relative to ISO language codes (ID: 3439293)
* FIXED: On Windows, Media Defender complain about chp.exe (ID: 3389953)
* FIXED: Rendering issue when displaying two notifications consecutivly:
only the last one was displayed.
* FIXED: Windows default install directory (to match standarts)
* FIXED: Missing Kiwix shortcuts menu entry on Win7 Application menu
(ID: 3456428)
* FIXED: Buggy permission eskalation in Windows 7 installer (ID: 3442074)
* FIXED: Buggy behaviour if you close the last tab (ID: 3459365)
* FIXED: Double-checked menu items in language/skin menus in case of
abandoned restart process
* FIXED: Few UI bugs related to the navigation history management (ID:
3444677)
* FIXED: Regression impacting reading of splitted big (more than 4GB)
ZIM files (ID: 3463001)
* NEW: New supported user interface languages: Czech (cs), Upper Sorbian
(hsb),
Cyrillic Tatar (tt-cyrl), Lower Sorbian (dsb), Hindi (hi), Gujarati
(gu), Tamil (ta),
Georgian (ka), Estonian (et), Bulgarian (bg), Lithuanian (lt), Oriya
(or), Slovak (sk)
* NEW: Switch off automatically library if loading random article
* NEW: In the library, pressing<ENTER> in your local library directly
open the file
* NEW: Greying "Load random article" menu entry if no content is loaded
(ID: 3439112)
* NEW: Add the support of the "publisher" ZIM Metadata
* NEW: Improved library menus rendering (ID: 3439109)
* NEW: Improved code and documentation of kiwix-manage
* NEW: In library, option to keep ZIM file during content deletion (ID:
3442084)
* NEW: "Copy Link Address" in contextual menu for external links (ID:
3444066)
* NEW: Security code to avoid "displaying" main window outside the
screen (ID: 3415334)
* NEW: "First" and "Last" arrows in the search result page (ID: 3442313)
* NEW: Download ZIM files directly from HTTP - without using metalink
(ID: 3450237)
* NEW: Ctrl+ modifier to Home, Back and Forward buttons to branch to new
tabs (ID: 3459481)
* NEW: Windows installer Silent Mode (with command line option /S)
* NEW: Improved Windows User Interface (by tunning the CSS)
* NEW: Port of console tools kiwix-index, kiwix-manage and kiwix-install
for Windows
Please test as much as possible the following points:
* Windows installer with non-admin users permissions
* Kiwix on Windows7 and Vista
* New console tools on Windows
Download:
* Kiwix at https://sourceforge.net/projects/kiwix/files/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
Hi
We have released the second beta of Kiwix 0.9. This dev. release fixes
a lot of annoying bugs which were impacting the usability ; part of them
were regressions introduced by the (big) beta1 release done 2 weeks ago.
Here is the changelog:
* Regression fix, tabs should not be visible per default
* Fixed deprecated tmp.kiwix.org/zim links in help files (ID: 3376641)
* Now able to load on GNU/Linux with the command line ZIM files with "
" in their path
* Add menuitem File > Browse Library (ID: 3377139)
* Avoid segfault by bookmarks pointing to a missing ZIM file (ID:
3376642)
* Bookmarks now compatible with multizim
* Fixed the searchindex assignement problem if the current ZIM file is
changed during indexing process (ID: 3377136)
* Fixed broken locales it and ar
* Fixed OSX crashes if previous ZIM was gone (ID: 3243147)
* Fixed regression with not always 100% visible close tab button (ID:
3377280)
* Fixed issue occuring by installing PPA 0.9 beta1 over alpha7 fails
(ID: 3377130)
* Fixed drag zim file on Kiwix icon in OSX Dock (ID: 3315167)
* Fixed drag zim on Kiwix window in OSX (ID: 3385313)
* Fixed fullscreen shortcut for OSX now compliant to standard (ID:
3304022)
* Avoid the possibility to open an external url in a new kiwix tab
(does not make sense)
* Implement ctrl+w keyboard shortcut to close the current tab
* Implement ctrl+W keyboard shortcut to close all tabs
* Close all tabs before opening new ZIM file, avoid weird situations
(ID: 3372140)
* Fixed tabs behavior
* FullScreen support for Tabs
* Revamped Tabs UI on Linux, OSX and Windows
* Introduce/Improve keyboard shortcuts behaviour for a better scrolling
experience (ID: 3389521)
* Fixed problem with not working content manager on Windows installed
instances of Kiwix (ID: 3385476)
* Fixed regression: scroll is funky on OSX (ID: 3385602)
* Fixed a regression impacting javascript links
Source:
http://kiwix.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/kiwix/moulinkiwix/CHANGELOG
Most of the work were done during Wikimania in Haifa.
Next release (so beta3) will take a little bit longer.
Please test this release intensively and report any bugs or feature
request:
* http://reportabug.kiwix.org
* http://requestafeature.kiwix.org
We also still need to increase the size of our test team, so join us at
kiwix-testing(a)lists.sourceforge.net
Regards
Emmanuel
FYI
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Offline-l] [KIWIX] 0.9 beta1 for Win/Mac/Linux is out!
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 10:31:13 +0200
From: emmanuel(a)engelhart.org
To: <dev-l(a)openzim.org>, <offline-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Reply-To: Using Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki offline
<offline-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi
I have released the first beta of Kiwix 0.9. Binaries for Win32,
MacOSX, Ubuntu (PPA) are available, like the source code. You may
download them from Sourceforge or Kiwix Web site.
This took us almost 9 months to prepare this release... what is really
a long time between two dev. releases. But a lot of things were done
like:
* the Mac OSX port,
* the integrated content/download manager,
* the new search user interface.
Behind the scene, we newly integrate:
* aria2c to deal with downloads/uploads,
* ctpp2 as a template engine,
* pugixml as xml parser,
... and rebanped the whole set of compilation scripts.
Here is the CHANGELOG:
* Remove a hard coded path in kiwix-compact.sh (ID: 3135956)
* Avoid the flickering during mouseover links after canceling the
indexing
* Under Windows, installer adds now shortcuts to all users
* Force loading no plugin to avoid any problem (with libmoon for
example)
* Under Windows, the displayed (disk) "space required" value is now
correct in the installer
* kiwix-index backend argument is now an option and set as "xapian"
per
default
* Fix regressions responsible for lower case titles in result list
(ID:
3147594)
* Implement the HTTP 404 error in kiwix-serve
* Fix a small bug in the indexing code to avoid forgetting around 100
articles per ZIM file
* Disable DNS prefetching for external links
* New locales: Polish, Dutch
* Open a ZIM file directly from the command line
* Gnome and KDE integration: mime-type recognition + icon &
application
associations (ZIM double-click feature)
* New checksum checker to be able to check ZIM file integrity
* A list of ZIM files to download is dynamicaly downloaded in the help
page if user online (ID: 3165272)
* Simplification and improvment of the searchbar (no search button
anymore, always available, standardized, ...)
* New Find-in-text bar (like in firefox, at the bottom), to replace
the
dialogbox.
* Result sidebar removed and replaced by a result web page "a la
google"
* Usage of jar files for a quicker startup
* Kiwix for Mac OSX
* kiwix-serve CPU usage improvement (ID: 3213104)
* Update the Window title by switching the tabs
* New integrated content manager/downloader
* Introduction of Desktop notifications (ID: 3315162)
* New way to open link in new tab with shortcuts or drag&drop (ID:
3311320)
* Option to change the profile directory
Online:
http://kiwix.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/kiwix/moulinkiwix/CHANGELOG
The most important, we have done the mandatory work to setup a
decentralized solution to spread/share content (ZIM Files).
We still do not use all the power offered by the Metalink tech... but
we will (we still need new mirrors, please contact us if you may setup
one).
As a result almost all features we wanted to introduce for 0.9 are now
there and we plan now to use the next beta and RC releases to fix bugs
(I'm sure we will detect also a few regressions) and polish the
software. 0.9 Final release should be there for Christmas in the worth
case.
More people than usual helped me to prepare this version, I want
especially to thank:
* Tomasz and Ryan, from the WMF, for the big support and together
work,
* Renaud for the OSX port,
* Testers which were for the first time really involved and help us so
much with their remarks.
Regards
Emmanuel
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Hi everyone, we need your help.
We are from Python Argentina, and we are working on adapting our
cdpedia project to make a DVD together with educ.ar and Wikimedia
Foundation, holding the entire Spanish Wikipedia that will be sent
soon to Argentinian schools.
Hernán and Diego are the two interns tasked with updating the data
that cdpedia uses to make the cd (it currently uses a static html dump
dated June 2008), but they are encountering some problems while trying
to make an up to date static html es-wikipedia dump.
I'm ccing this list of people, because I'm sure you've faced similar
issues when making your offline wikipedias, or because maybe you know
someone who can help us.
Following is an email from Hernán describing the problems he's found.
thanks!
--
alecu - Python Argentina
2010/4/30 Hernan Olivera <lholivera(a)gmail.com>:
Hi everybody,
I've been working on making an up to date static html dump for the
spanish wikipedia, to use as a basis for the DVD.
I've followed the procedures detailed in the pages below, that were
used to generate the current (and out of date) static html dumps:
1) installing and setting up a mediawiki instance
2) importing the xml from [6] with mwdumper
3) exporting the static html with mediawiki's tool
The procedure finishes without throwing any errors, but the xml import
produces malformed html pages that have visible wikimarkup.
We would really need to have a successful import from the spanish xmls
to a mediawiki instance so we can produce the up to date static html
dump.
Links to the info I used:
[0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_guide/es
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Ubuntu
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_database
[3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Importing_XML_dumps
[4] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Importing_a_Wikipedia_database_dump_into_Med…
[5] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps
[6] http://dumps.wikimedia.org/eswiki/20100331/
[7] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers
(among others)
Cheers,
--
Hernan Olivera
PS: unluckily I didn't write down every step in detail. I did a lot
more tests than what I wrote here. To make a detailed report I'd like
to go thru the procedure again writing down every option (and to check
if I missed something). I'm finishing installing a server just for
this, because this processes take forever and they blocked other tasks
while making this tests.
2009/10/23 Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>:
> Jimbo - thanks for the spur to clean up the existing work.
>
> All - Let's start by cleaning up the mailing lists and setting a few
> short-term goals :-) It's a good sign that we have both charity and love
> converging to make something happen.
>
> * For all-platform all-purpose wikireaders, let's use
> offline-l(a)lists.wikimedia, as we discussed a month ago in the aftermath of
> Wikimania (Erik, were you going to set this up? I think we agreed to
> deprecate wiki-offline-reader-l and replace it with offline-l.)
>
> * For wikireaders such as WikiBrowse and Infoslicer on the XO, please
> continue to use wikireader(a)lists.laptop
>
>
> I would like to see WikiBrowse become the 'sugarized' version of a reader
> that combines the best of that and the openZim work. A standalone DVD or
> USB drive that comes with its own search tools would be another version of
> the same. As far as merging codebases goes, I don't think the WikiBrowse
> developers are invested in the name.
>
> I think we have a good first cut at selecting articles, weeding out stubs,
> and including thumbnail images. Maybe someone working on openZim can
> suggest how to merge the search processes, and that file format seems
> unambiguously better.
>
> Kul - perhaps part of the work you've been helping along for standalone
> usb-key snapshots would be useful here.
>
>
> Please continue to update this page with your thoughts and progress!
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_readers
>
> SJ
>
>
> 2009/10/23 Iris Fernández <irisfernandez(a)gmail.com>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia-inc.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > My dream is quite simple: a DVD that can be shipped to millions of
>> > people with an all-free-software solution for reading Wikipedia in Spanish.
>> > It should have a decent search solution, doesn't have to be perfect, but it
>> > should be full-text. It should be reasonably fast, but super-perfect is not
>> > a consideration.
>> >
>>
>> Hello! I am an educator, not a programmer. I can help selecting
>> articles or developing categories related to school issues.
>
> Iris - you know the main page of WikiBrowse that you see when the reader
> first loads? You could help with a new version of that page. Madeleine
> (copied here) worked on the first one, but your thoughts on improving it
> would be welcome.
>
>
>
Le mer 07/07/10 09:35, "Hernan Olivera" lholivera(a)gmail.com a écrit:
> Hi everyone. We need your help again.
>
> We finally have a working mirror for generating the static html
> version of ESWIKI we need for Cd-Pedia using DumpHTML extension.
> But it seems that the process will take about 3000 hours of
> processing in our little sempron server (4 months!).
I have in the past prepared a full ZIM file (with thumbnails) of WPIT and it tooks ~3 weeks (but not only the dumpHTML part of the process. also mirroring, optimizing, etc.).
http://tmp.kiwix.org/zim/0.9/wikipedia_it_all_kiwix_03_alpha2.zim
I'm currently preparing something similar in French and Spanish. I'm doing that on a new server so I think this will take agains a few weeks. I should release a first version for both Wikipedias during August.
Emmanuel
Jimbo - thanks for the spur to clean up the existing work.
All - Let's start by cleaning up the mailing lists and setting a few
short-term goals :-) It's a good sign that we have both charity and love
converging to make something happen.
* For all-platform all-purpose wikireaders, let's use
offline-l(a)lists.wikimedia, as we discussed a month ago in the aftermath of
Wikimania (Erik, were you going to set this up? I think we agreed to
deprecate wiki-offline-reader-l and replace it with offline-l.)
* For wikireaders such as WikiBrowse and Infoslicer on the XO, please
continue to use wikireader(a)lists.laptop
I would like to see WikiBrowse become the 'sugarized' version of a reader
that combines the best of that and the openZim work. A standalone DVD or
USB drive that comes with its own search tools would be another version of
the same. As far as merging codebases goes, I don't think the WikiBrowse
developers are invested in the name.
I think we have a good first cut at selecting articles, weeding out stubs,
and including thumbnail images. Maybe someone working on openZim can
suggest how to merge the search processes, and that file format seems
unambiguously better.
Kul - perhaps part of the work you've been helping along for standalone
usb-key snapshots would be useful here.
Please continue to update this page with your thoughts and progress!
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_readers
SJ
2009/10/23 Iris Fernández <irisfernandez(a)gmail.com>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia-inc.com> wrote:
> >
> > My dream is quite simple: a DVD that can be shipped to millions of people
> with an all-free-software solution for reading Wikipedia in Spanish. It
> should have a decent search solution, doesn't have to be perfect, but it
> should be full-text. It should be reasonably fast, but super-perfect is not
> a consideration.
> >
>
> Hello! I am an educator, not a programmer. I can help selecting
> articles or developing categories related to school issues.
>
Iris - you know the main page of WikiBrowse that you see when the reader
first loads? You could help with a new version of that page. Madeleine
(copied here) worked on the first one, but your thoughts on improving it
would be welcome.
After some discussion with WMF staff and people working on wiki
offline tools, we wanted to make sure we have an official
WMF-designated forum to discuss both offline reader and editor
technologies for Wikimedia Foundation projects and other MediaWikis.
We felt the list name "wiki-offline-reader" didn't reflect
appropriately the need for offline editing and sharing tools, and have
therefore created a new list called offline-l:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l
We'll advertise this new list in the next couple of weeks in various
places. If you're interested in offline discussions, I strongly
encourage you to subscribe there.
Because wiki-offline-reader-l hasn't been very active, I haven't moved
the archives over, but this list won't be deleted for now (I added a
deprecation notice to the list info page).
Thanks and all best,
Erik
--
Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
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Hi,
this news may be interesting for Linux users, as Kiwix 0.8 currently only available for this Operating system.
>From version 0.8, Kiwix will be a pure ZIM file player. ZIM is a new open format adapted to store multimedia contents, especially HTML pages. You can take a look to the project http://www.openzim.org.
I have already build a few ZIM files with different languages. Currently, v0.8 of the soft and the ZIM are still in dev. status but rendering is good and search engine efficient.
You can check out the binary here:
http://tmp.kiwix.org/bin/kiwix-0.8-beta1+xulrunner.tar.bz2
... and ZIM files here:
http://tmp.kiwix.org/zim/
You can especially test the 30.000 articles big ZIM file in English with well selected articles from the WP1 projects:
http://tmp.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia_en_wp1_0.7_30000+_05_2009_alpha6.zim
Feedback are welcome. Windows version will come in the worth case at the end of the year.
Regards
Emmanuel
PS: If people are motivated to help me preparing ZIM files in other languages, please contact me.