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Revision as of 09:43, 6 April 2014
Kiwix works well but still suffer of some usability issues. This hackathon has for purpose to improve the overwhole usability of the project: from web site, to Kiwix for PC, through documentation and other mobile versions.
Date & Location
- Spring 2014, 5-11 May (with 3 days during the Wikimedia Hackathon)
- Zurich, Switzerland
Tasks
- Desktop
- Fix compilation on OSX
- Let integrity check run in background
- Remove kiwix sh script launcher
- ...
- Android
- Fix crashes (at least the one with the back button)
- Implement internal library/downloader
- Fix bookmarking system
- ...
- iOS
- Build libkiwix for iOS
- ...
- Other
- Build VM for developers
- Replace ZIP files by real files in the torrent file
- Propose index to be download separately
- Rewrite the list of contents on the Kiwix web site to allow a link to the demo server and also other type of contents (not only Wikimedia)
- Rewrite windows launcher to avoid XML files, store is at the root of the USB flash drive, everything in one binary
- Rewrite kiwix linux launcher to be run from usb flash drive root
- Download splitted ZIM files from the kiwix-desktop downloader
- In portable version with content, we should provide a launcher with the icon of the content (example wikipedia icon) in addition to the kiwix icon
Attendees
- Reg
- Kelson
- RashiqAhmad, for the last 3 days