Lyon 2015

This page summarize the action plan for the Kiwix mobile hackathon 2015, a WikimediaCH effort to improve Kiwix mobile related solution.

Goals

Release a solution to allow to create quickly a bundle Kiwix for Android + ZIM file

• App should allow to quickly/easily get the content (the content should be available in the app or as a companion file)
• App appearance should be customizable
• App description and publication process in the Google Play should be able to run from the command line
• Solution should allow to automatically update bundles if Kiwix app or/and new version of the content is available
• Solution should be able to deal with hundreds of app

Fix bugs on Kiwix for Android

• Fix Kiwix for Android compilation on OSX
• Close tab behaviour problem on Android
• Unable to download an epub
• Add HTML audio/video support
• Title of the "Open ZIM file" view has the wrong language
• Kiwix should keep the fullscreen settings
• ...

One topic left for an additional developer

Output

Three automated generated apps:

• Medical encyclopedia (English)
• Encyclopedia of Venezuela (Spanish)
• Wikivoyage (English)

Impact

Kiwix for Android is now well installed in the Android landscape, global rating is really good (4.33/5) and the most successful offline reader for Wikimedia project. But, although this good performance, we only 25.000 users having it installed. We think that the app under-performed in term of audience. To our opinion, one of the main reason is that it is too complicated to have separated downloads between apps and content. Having one dedicated app per content should help us to reach a broader audience and increase the number of Kiwix users by many factors.

Method

Let 2-3 Kiwix developers meet during a week to make this step.

Place

Lyon, France

Agenda

24 -> 31 May 2015

People

• Emmanuel
• Renaud
• Rashiq
• One place left

Costs

Around CHF 3.000.