Lyon 2017

This page summarizes the action plan for the Kiwix Spring Hackathon 2017.

Goals

Android

• Setup the Android automated testing up and make a proof of concept
• Release a new version of Kiwix for Android (maybe a first version with multizim support?)
• Implement Wikimed Feedback solution
• Implement a solution to allow non-tech to launch/update Android custom apps
• More sophisticated bookmark
• Work on 2.3 release
• Consider possible ways to enable users to provide device-info such as storage locations to help us improve support for their devices.

Scrappers (Python)

• Fix Gutenberg scrapper and generate new ZIM files
• Fix KALite ZIM export (for a first release)
• Create a fully automatized solution for Stackexchange projects ZIM files

Scrapper Mediawiki (Nodejs)

• Implement Wikihow scrapper (non-parsoid Mediawiki scraper)
• Scrape categories
• Support videos (if Parsoid allows it)

Phet

• Release a new version of Phet Simulation with an improved UX

HTML5 (Javascript)

• Launch the first pure HTML ZIM read browser extensions (FF+Chrome)

Search

• Fix fulltext search/indexes problems

ZIM building

• Setup a ZIM building scheduler (with Celery?)

Ideascube builder

• Get a Qemu Raspbian image ready in Travis

Apache

• Create a zim module for Apache (based on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42605138/how-can-i-write-an-apache-module-in-c) Julian

Group Discussion Topics

During the hackathon we'd like to discuss various topics collectively. These include:

• UX and particularly Onboarding
• Desktop apps
• Incorporating analytics

We aim to agree a topic with about a day's notice so those who wish can do some preparation, e.g. reading up, sharing ideas and notes, etc.

UX & Onboarding

When: 14:00 ish Tuesday 4th April 2017

Intro

We believe large numbers of users only use the app briefly before abandoning it. There are various ideas why this might be so. Perhaps they don't understand what the app can do for them, or they may find it hard to get started. There may be problems downloading content, etc. Also, with our growth in custom apps, including non-Wikipedia content such as PhET simulations, perhaps the user interface, menu options, and some of the functionality is a poor fit for the content and capabilities. We'd like to discuss the UX, including onboarding (getting users from first starting the app to using it productively), and consider ways we might usefully improve the UX.

Automatic testing

When: Wednesday 5th April 2017

Intro

Some repos already have automatic testing (unit tests and/or UI tests). Some other ones plan to add it.

We should discuss our experience/ideas on that topic, and see if we could do something in common.

Achievements

Browser extensions

A basic browser extension has been commited.

Before it is available from Google and Mozilla extensions system, it can be installed manually :

• Checkout the kiwix-html5 github repo (master branch)
• For Firefox :
  • open a new tab with URL "about:debugging"
  • click on "load a temporary module" and choose the "manifest.json" file from your local copy of the code
• For Chromium/Chrome :
  • open a new tab with URL "chrome://extensions/"
  • click on "developer mode" then on "load unpackaged extension" and choose the directory of your local copy of the code (where the "manifest.json" fil is)
• On both browsers, a Kiwix icon should appear on the right of the address bar
• If you click on this icon, it should open a new tab with the Kiwix application. You must then choose your ZIM file(s), and you should be able to browse it

Gutenberg scraper

• Updated dependencies and made it python3 compatible
• Parallelized long-running operations: download, parsing and export
• Fixed 3 bugs related to the scraping process

Impact

This hackathon gathers different kind of tasks which all in one will help to implement the Wikimed Projet and reach our goals in term of new content for 2017.

Method

~ 10 developers meet during a week to make this steps forward.

Place

The hackathon will take place in Lyon, France

Agenda

• April 2th afternoon: arrivals (suggested arrival time 5PM)
• April 3th -> 9th: Kiwix hackathon
• April 9th afternoon: departures (suggested departure time 3PM)

People

Travel + Accommodation

• Adrian
• Elad
• Emmanuel
• Joe
• Julian
• Rashiq
• Renaud

Sponsored

• Hayley

Only Travel

• Isaac

Located in Lyon

• Matthieu
• Mossroy
• Guillaume

Costs

• Accommodation: ~4.000 CHF
• Travels: ~2.000 CHF
• F&B: ~3000 CHF

-> ~9.000 CHF