Difference between revisions of "Wikivoyage"

Revision as of 12:23, 29 December 2013

Wikivoyage logo

Wikivoyage is a Wikimedia project which has for purpose to create an online worldwide travel guide.

Wikivoyage is an interesting use for Kiwix because:

This is not a huge content (500MB of text, plus optional images), so we don't have to deal with giga bytes of data.
This is an non-encyclopedic content.
This is an interesting content for non-connected people.
This is a perfect content for Kiwix for Android

Create a dedicated Android app for Wikivoyage providing the best of both Kiwix and Wikivoyage.
Better advert Wikivoyage on Kiwix web site

Create an automated solution to create wikivoyage ZIM files
- Create a Wikimedia labs instance
- Setup with mwoffliner.js and zimwriterfs
- Run it also to get ZIM file without images
Improve www.kiwix.org
- Rewrite Template:ZIMdumps to allow non-wikipedia content (mostly add a new column)
Create a smartphone friendly dedicated welcome page on Wikivoyage.
Convert Wikivoyage hotel coordinates to button that opens in Map+GPS app
- Discuss about that within openZIM

Create a new "Wikivoyage by Kiwix" Google Play entry
- Create (or modify existing) a script to prepare a Wikivoyage rebranded APK of Kiwix
Feature to find Nearby Articles, using GPS.
~~Make phone numbers callable ("tel:" URLs)~~ Kelson (talk) 11:29, 3 December 2013 (CET)

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 Latest ZIM: http://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikivoyage_en_all.zim.torrent
-Wikivoyage is an interesting for Kiwix because:
+Wikivoyage is an interesting use for Kiwix because:
 * This is not a huge content (500MB of text, plus optional images), so we don't have to deal with giga bytes of data.
 * This is an non-encyclopedic content.