Kiwix/Plan 2023-2024
Here is Kiwix' Annual plan for FY2023-2024.
The overall goal is to maintain service (scrapers) and platform (readers) quality, and keep expanding our content offer - be it in its overall variety (e.g. new scrapers which are probably outside of scope for this grant as they do not pertain to Wikimedia content) and the way it is delivered, e.g. custom selections and custom apps (so-called "snackable content")
Goals and Outcomes edit
1. Maintain the quality and availability of our content.
- The main target this year will be to adapt to the Foundation's API changes so we can keep on scraping Wikimedia content.
- We will keep on working on reducing mediawiki offliner's technical debt
- The current objective of 99% wikis being updated on a monthly basis remains.
2. Maintain (or improve) ease of access to offline content
- All platforms and dependencies are up-to-date. The expected outcome is that users have no particular issue downloading, installing and using Kiwix.
3. Expand offer so as to reach new audiences
- Explore new subsets for snackable content
Targets edit
| Outcome 1 | Target 1 | Measurement method | Baseline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia content remains available offline | Ready for API-endpoint changes by Q1 | MWoffliner running, new Wikimedia zim files generated after WMF changes / deprecates mobile API endpoints. | - |
| Target 2 | |||
| 95% of Wikimedia zim files automatically updated on a monthly basis | Publication date at D-30 and D-60. | 99% updated monthly (July 1st, 2023) | |
| Outcome 2 | Target 3 | Measurement method | Baseline |
| Access offline content | 20% increase in number of institutional and individual users of Kiwix. | Feedback from deployment partners.
Mobile: baseline/endline number of retained 30-day Android installers as measured by Google Play console. Desktop: baseline/endline number of downloads as measured by Kiwix servers. |
ca. 3M users via institutional deployments across all platforms (June 30, 2023) 2M Android users (June 30, 2023) 1.8 desktop downloads (12 month total June 30, 2023) |
| Target 4 | |||
| No major backlog on maintenance status of current platforms (Server, Android, Desktop) and dependencies: fix Kiwix-Android access issues on F-droid and Google Play Store | - All platforms can be run and installed on recent off-the-shelf systems
- Code coverage / Code factor analytics as provided by Github |
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| Outcome 3 | Target 5 | ||
| New audiences can access Wikimedia content | Release new custom apps based on subsets
Release WP1 Wikipedia-on-demand tool |
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Currently only Wikimed app (10 languages), along with WikiVoyage / WikiVoyage Europe (English) available on Android |
Others edit
Other programs, outcomes, and goals in 200-300 words.
- Increase our fundraising efforts so as to acquire large grants that will help use decrease the share of WMF funding as part of our total budget
- Increase our commercial offer, with an end target of 45% of our total revenue.
- Revamp hotspot imager to make it easier and faster to generate larger images (from 256GB to 1TB)
- Work on Zimit 2.0
Dependencies
- Volunteer developers to accelerate project speed
- Google for GSoC selection and slot allocation
- WMF Products dept for all mediawiki-related issues
Schedule edit
2023 edit
- Q1
- 50% grant payment
- Kiwix-desktop 2.4 integrates service workers
- Release Image Creator base image
- Q2
- Release Kiwix-Android 3.8
- Release Libzim 9.0
- Release Libkiwix 13.0.0
- Release Bollywood, Wikimed UA, Arabic Wiktionary android Apps
2024 edit
- Q3
- Release Imager 2.0
- Release Prepper configuration on Hotspot, AfCoN App (FR/EN)
- Release Kiwix-tools 3.7
- mwoffliner maintenance solution
- Q4
- Release Content strategy
- Release Zimit 2.0
Reporting edit
- Monthly check in