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'''Emmanuel Engelhart, Inventor of Kiwix: the Offline Wikipedia Browser'''
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''This user profile by Joe Sutherland is part of a series about Offline Wikipedia on the <span class="plainlinks">[http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/09/12/emmanuel-engelhart-inventor-of-kiwix/ Wikimedia blog]</span> where it was first published. As well as having created Kiwix, Emmanuel is a developer for Wikimedia UK.''
You can follow us on Twitter (<span class="plainlinks">[http://twitter.com/wikimediauk @wikimediauk]</span>) or Like us on Facebook (<span class="plainlinks">[http://www.facebook.com/WikimediaUK WikimediaUK]</span>).


Wikipedia’s goal is to be the sum of human knowledge, available to anyone at any time, but when billions of people have no internet access at all, how can that goal be realized? The answer according to software developer Emmanuel Engelhart ([[User:Kelson]]) is quite simple – take Wikipedia offline.
You can also sign up to the <span class="plainlinks">[https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l email discussion list]</span> for the Wikimedia community in the UK.
Together with Renaud Gaudin, he invented <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Main_Page Kiwix]</span>, an open source software which allows users to download a copy of Wikipedia in its entirety for offline reading.


Kiwix uses all of Wikipedia’s content through the <span class="plainlinks">[https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/04/parsoid-how-wikipedia-catches-up-with-the-web/ Parsoid wiki parser]</span> to package articles into an open source .zim file that can be read by the special Kiwix browser. Since Kiwix was released in 2007, <span class="plainlinks">[http://kiwix.org/wiki/Wikipedia_in_all_languages dozens of languages of Wikipedia have been made available as .zim files]</span>, as has other free content, such as Wikisource, Wiktionary and Wikivoyage.
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After becoming a Wikipedia editor in 2004, Engelhart became interested in discussions of offline versions of Wikipedia. At the time, Engelhart was in his mid-20s and living in his small village near the town of [[:en:Vendôme|Vendôme]], a few hundred kilometers south of Paris. Learning that a 2003 proposal by Jimmy Wales to create a CD version of Wikipedia, [[:en:Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team|Version 1.0]], never made its initial timescale, inspired Engelhart to take action.
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We organise dozens of events each year, including meetups, editing events, "Backstage Pass" events at museums, workshops and conferences.
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<span class="plainlinks">[https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2014/09/emmanuel-engelhart-inventor-of-kiwix-the-offline-wikipedia-browser/<nowiki>[</nowiki>Continues...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span>
We are always interested to hear from new [[volunteer|volunteers]]. If you have an idea you'd like to help make happen, or time and skills you would like to offer Wikimedia UK, please get in touch on volunteering{{@}}wikimedia.org.uk


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* {{event inline|2014|09|01|end=30|[http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org.uk/ Wiki Loves Monuments]}}
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* {{event inline|2014|09|27|[[:m:Meetup/Manchester/25|Manchester meetup]]}}
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* {{event inline|2014|10|01|[[GLAM Committee Agenda 2014-10-01|GLAM Committee meeting]]}}
* {{event inline|2014|10|11| [[Cinema_Museum_Back_Stage_Pass|Back Stage Pass to the Cinema Museum, London]].}}
* {{event inline|2014|10|11|end=12|AdaCamp Berlin}}
* {{event inline|2014|10|12|[[:m:Meetup/London/86|London meetup]]}}
* {{event inline|2014|10|14|[[:en:Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Oxford/AdaLovelaceDay2014|Ada Lovelace day 2014 in Oxford]]}}
* {{event inline|2014|10|18|[[:en:Wikipedia:WikiProject_LGBT_studies/Editathons/Bishopsgate_Library,_London|LGBT editathon, Bishopsgate Library, London]]}}


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Latest revision as of 15:21, 30 October 2024

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Wikimedia UK

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We organise dozens of events each year, including meetups, editing events, "Backstage Pass" events at museums, workshops and conferences.

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