Offline Projects/Reports/June 2024
Objectives of the UserGroup[edit]
There have been many efforts to distribute offline snapshots to places with little connectivity, via schoolservers, wikireaders, and pocket-sized servers that run on batteries.
In 2017, a retreat for offline-wiki developers, users, and deployers was organized by Martin Walker at Potsdam University. In addition, Kiwix has organized hackathons for their toolchain and related use cases for many years. This user group is a shared community for people developing any of these offline related initiatives!
This group was formed at the WMCON in 2018 to
- + Consolidate and support offline snapshots of wiki knowledge, and deployments of them in schools, clinics, and rural communities.
- + Update and maintain the offline projects portal on Meta.
- + Advocate for better distribution of and awareness of offline wikis, in all parts of the world where internet access is restricted, expensive, or unavailable: including schools, clinics, prisons, refugee camps, disaster areas.
Activities in FY 2023-2024[edit]
Kiwix[edit]
- Hackathons
- Wikimedia-ZA organized a hackathon at WikiIndaba_conference_2023 seeking proof-of-concept of over-the-air updating of Kiwix libraries. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_2023/Submissions/OTA_Update_Hackathon
Communication[edit]
- Telegram group : https://t.me/+h9_1cf4uRYczZWZk
- mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/offline-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
Membership in 2023-2024[edit]
- Sj (group contact)
- Anthere (group contact)
- Doc James
- rahuldeshmukh101
- Amqui
- Kiwix
- Legoktm
- Michaelgraaf
- Abhinav Srivastava
- Shani Evenstein
- Fawaz Tairou
- Islahaddow
- Mark A. Hershberger
- Daren Welsh
- bluerasberry
- GastelEtzwane
- Wilfredor
- Dang Brazal
- Adam Wight - also interested in offline editing.
- Maxwell Beganim
- Daniel Mietchen
- Rajeeb
- Stephen Dakyi
- Shanluan (talk)
- Martin Walker
- Kunokuno (talk) 05:54, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
- Joy Agyepong
- Ruby D-Brown
- Zblace
- Vahidmasrour (talk) 17:04, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
- CaliBen
- Gilbert Ndihokubwayo (talk) 20:09, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
- Gina Bennett
- Din-nani1 (talk) 18:07, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
- Ourysow92
- Seddon/Seddon (WMF)
- Omorodion1 (talk) 19:00, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
- 787IYO (talk) 21:33, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
- Bile René (talk) 09:43, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
Administrative[edit]
Affiliation[edit]
This group was formed at the WMCON in 2018, by implementers in different countries who found one another and realized that we were not coordinating efforts as well as we might -- and did not know the current status of many important offline projects, as these were not gathered in a single place. The UG was subsequently approved Wikimedians for Offline Wikis
Contacts[edit]
Group contacts as of mid 2023
- user:Sj meta.sj <at> gmail.com
- user:Anthere fdevouard <at> anthere.org