KIWIX VIEWER ANDROID
The trial project included the distribution of 50 USB flash drives, three external hard drives and two Android tablets, with Kiwix pre-installed. The follow-up reports had to be collected in person during the July 2016 visit. It was not easy getting reports from these different schools at the end of the 2015-2016 school year (even from the Peace Corps), mainly because there is a very strong oral tradition in West Africa and most everything is done over the phone.
Another trial was started at the Senegalese Naval Training Academy in Dakar. This trial involved two schools (a junior high school and a high school) as well as the US Peace Corps training center. The project started out in August 2015 with a few small-scale trials in Thiès funded out of Gabriel’s not-so-large pocket.
KIWIX VIEWER OFFLINE
The only way to achieve this is to provide that knowledge in an offline format. "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. The schools have recurrent equipment problems, both with their own hardware as well as with Internet connectivity hardware, which means that it is not realistic to rely on a 100% online Wikipedia solution to provide knowledge to educators and to their students. After visiting different schools, it became apparent that most schools have very poor internet connections, even in the larger cities. Gabriel started spreading Kiwix in July 2014 during a trip to Senegal. This project is run by Gabriel Thullen, a Geneva (Switzerland) Wikimedian, previous WMCH board member, and school teacher IRL. The website proposes dozens and dozens of different zim files of Wikipedia, Wikimedia sister projects, and other educational resources like TED talks and scientific videos.
Entire web sites, like Wikipedia, can be downloaded and compressed into *.zim files, which are then read and displayed by the Kiwix program. Kiwix is an offline Wikipedia reader, developed by a team led by Emmanuel Engelhardt and supported by Wikimedia Switzerland. These schools are in cities with limited access to the Internet and in small towns with little or no electricity, no cell phone coverage, and no Internet. Snippet: Seven Senegalese schools and the regional office of education of Foundiougne (serving 33 junior high schools and 7 high schools), will be testing the Kiwix offline Wikipedia during the 2016-2017 school year.
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