Wikivoyage

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

Latest ZIMs: http://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikivoyage/ (choose the file you want: English, French, German; with or without pictures)

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

Goal

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

Todo

High priority

• Improve the smartphone friendly dedicated welcome page on Wikivoyage: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Offline_reader_Expedition/Home_page
• Improve www.kiwix.org

Middle priority

• Feature to find Nearby Articles, using GPS.
• Open map of all POIs in the article using GPS app. A way to do this could be to generate a GPX file using all coordinates in the article (like http://maps.wikivoyage-ev.org/w/gpxmap.php?lang=en does) and launch an intent for it.

Low priority

• Feature to send tips, add POIs (Points Of Interest)

Done

• Add geolocal information to each article
• 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
  • Rewrite Template:ZIMdumps to allow non-wikipedia content (mostly add a new column)
• Convert Wikivoyage hotel coordinates to button that opens in Map+GPS app
• Create a new "Wikivoyage by Kiwix" Google Play entry
  • Create (or modify existing) a script to prepare a Wikivoyage rebranded APK of Kiwix
• Make phone numbers callable ("tel:" URLs) Kelson (talk) 11:29, 3 December 2013 (CET)

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