Zurich 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

See also

• Hackathon