Usability Hackathon 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
 * 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