Projects

The Kiwix volunteers program offers motivated and talented people ways to work for Kiwix during a limited time. Contributors can speak English, French, or German. Technical volunteers should know JavaScript, CSS, or other web languages, or C++.

Tasks

Kiwix for Android (Assigned)

See Android.

Collect informations about our audience (Assigned)

As Kiwix grows more in popularity it would be really nice to tell the stories of the organizations that are using it. If we know who's using it then we can ask those people to let us know how we can make it better. It would also allow us to better understand the reach that our offline projects and how fast we are improving us.

Currently with think in the following directions:

• Get more informations about the downloads and develop KPIs
• Setup a system to allow user to give us a feedback (see Tomasz's email)
• Improve/simplify bug reporting and feature requesting (being able to leave an email adress without registering, simplier).
• Feedback system

New Web site

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We need to replace the current web site by a more simple and fancy one. The current one is too complicated for the average customer and mix informations for devs and end users. In addition it does not provide some features which are essentials like a simple an intuitive way to search over the ZIM library or a simple way to give a feedback (bug report or feature request). So there is a lot of improvement potential in both content and visuals.

This new one should be based on Mediawiki and we already have a design. The wiki part, like we know it, would be still accessible but not push on the front of the Web site. So we need someone we good PHP & Web languages knowledges to do that.

See also http://paulgu.com/wiki/Drop_Down_Menu_Series

Mediawiki DumpHTML extension improvement

• Mediawiki DumpHTML extension improvement

Kiwix plug (Assigned)

See Plug solution.

Building testing platform

We need a solution to test automatically Kiwix. We have currently nothing... so we start from scratch.!

Wikipublish

Create a publication platform, a Web site online similar to itunes which would provide the list of available contents to download in ZIM, EPUB, .... also offert to see the book before downloading it.

• Wants to know more...
• Add support of EPUB in Kiwix

OSM

Make a proof of concept of a ZIM file providing a map using OSM data and a tool like openLayer.

Improve P2P support

• Fix Mirrorbrain to integrate torrent links in mirrorbrain
• Fix Mirrorbrain to support fallback torrent trackers in .torrent files
• Add a way to exchange library and content on a local network (for example, using "bonjour" & Bittorrent DHT)

Packaging

• Package for Ubuntu + official repository
• Package for Fedora + official repository
• Package for opensuse + official repository
• Package for Archlinux + official repository
• Package for FreeBSD + official repository
• Package for openWRT and DDWRT

Ambassador Program

Create an ambassador program. Ambassadors would be special people especially aware about Kiwix and able to help others:

• Spread contents
• Makes conferences
• Makes advertisement
• Local representative

To do that, we should develop a set of tools:

• Advertisement Package
• Ambassador program definition
• Map base on Ushahidi to locate them

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See also

• WMF Offline project overview
• Roadmap/en
• Kiwix feature requests