Offline Projects/Projects Overview

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This page is to capture (1) ongoing projects, (2) anticipated projects, and (3) desired projects to fund.

Current projects

Category	Project	Project priorities	Dates	Level complete	Project page	Sponsor
Currently underway
Reader	Kiwix	Critical bug squashing!! Develop feedback system (menu item feedback; post download feedback)	2011,Aug-Sept	100% 100%	Kiwix UX Improvement Effort	WMF
Reader	Kiwix	Kiwix for Sugar	2011,Sept	100%	Kiwix for Sugar	WMCH (Black&White Project)
Reader	Kiwix	Automatic compilation Compilation Farm	2011,Oct-Jan	100%	Compilation platform	WMCH (Black&White Project)
Article selection	Collections extension	Scale out the collections extension to support larger collections	2011,Sept	0%		WMF
Storage	ePub (PediaPress & eReadia)	Extend collections extension to support downloading content as an ePub file (currently available in PDF, ODT, and ZIM)	2011,July-Oct	25%		WMIT(?)
Distribution	Kiwix and offline French	Installation of offline versions of Wikipedia and Wiktionary in the West Africa universities Offline versions will be set on "plugs computers" and locally broadcoasted by wifi providing for easy update and opening the option for pageview analytics.	2011,Sept	?	Francophonie project	WMFR
Storage	ePub (PediaPress & eReadia)	Extend collections extension to support downloading content as an ePub file (currently available in PDF, ODT, and ZIM)	2011,July-Oct	25%		WMIT(?)
ZIM generation	ZIM Autobuild	Software and infrastrucure project to build more and more efficiently ZIM files of the projects.	2012,July-Oct	20%	ZIM Autobuild @kiwix.org	WMCH&Kiwix

Project pipeline

Interested in supporting a project? Here are some developments in the pipeline! Please consider the priority of the different components when selecting ones to sponsor and support, and feel free to add other projects you would like to say! The offline ecosystem should be coordinated in its efforts, so that the minimal resources are going to those things with the highest value.

If you are looking for advice in choosing or refining pipeline items, see the Talk page.

Category	Project	Details	Project page	Est. time	Priority level
Project pipeline
Mobile	Kiwix & Android	Create	Kiwix for Android		Medium
Reader	Kiwix	ZIM library: Filters and sorting Searching	Kiwix website	~30hrs	Low
Reader	Kiwix	Refine Kiwix UI	Kiwix website	~20hrs	Low
Reader	Kiwix	ePub support	Kiwix website	~60hrs	Low
Reader	Kiwix	Note: see Kiwix website for detailed information Allow multizim search and make it configurable Ability to build zim files Rebuild bookmarks	Kiwix website	~120hrs	Low
ZIM	DumpHTML	Improve ZIM creation toolchain Create php-zim extension to create zim files from PHP Revamp DumpHTML extension to use php-zim Integrate with Collection Extension and selection tools	website	~265hrs	?
Reader	Kiwix Plug	Wikipedia on a plug Create a tool chain to have kiwix-serve work off plug computers.	website	~160hrs	?

Proposed project ideas

Have an idea for a project / feature that you want prioritized? Suggest it here!

Read-write Offline

Providing an interactive offline encyclopedia is fundamentally different than client-mainframe in several challenging ways:

batch synchronization of edits
non-linear revision history
"light" mediawiki server?
article indexing and searching
heterogeneous database drivers

This project is out on a limb, but there is a working prototype available in mediawiki version control, under "extensions/Offline". Article data can be loaded directly from .xml.bz2 dumps, configured as the slave db, and the master db can be configured to write to a local mysql or sqlite store. There's a lot more to do, please help by visiting the project page.

Offline Projects/Projects Overview

Current projects

Project pipeline

Proposed project ideas

Read-write Offline

See also

Other offline wiki projects