![]() Working from home, the lockdowns that started mid-March did not prevent them from going to the office, but rather out of it. The good news (because we are of the glass-is-half-full persuasion) is that to a large extent our tech work was barely impacted : most of our team are contractors, and most of them work independently. This was a year of many learnings - no least with the fact that the world can go its merry way one day and ground to a halt the next. Project Impact: Plans are useless, but planning is essential ![]() For detailed objectives, see section 1.3.3. ![]() The expected outcome being that (i) people without internet access can nevertheless access Wikimedia content and (ii) a cleaner code makes it easier for new contributors to contribute features and support maintenance. make the various Kiwix applications easy to use and install.The broad and ultimate goal of the grant did not deviate from last year's: we want to facilitate the distribution of Wikimedia (and other) contents to people without reliable internet access, either directly or through third party organizations. This should hopefully begin to change now that we are finally able to take our eyes off purely technical matters. Our (measured) audience continued to grow, but not as fast as we'd want it as we still lack reliable measurement tools other than pestering partners via email. Other significant milestones included the release of Kiwix-android 3.0, an expanded zimfarm, a hackathon alongside Wikimania, and new partnerships that expanded our reach. Top improvements this year included two long-awaited updates: the English Wikipedia (which got us an article in Vice's Motherboard) and the final release of Kiwix-desktop 2.0 (for Linux and Windows machines). ![]() We now consider the work that had started in 2017 and that aimed at stabilizing Kiwix (or more exactly the Kiwix suite of platforms, if that's a word) to be mostly done, which will allow us to focus on expanding content and improve user experience. Most technical goals were attained in spite of a somewhat difficult second half of the year: our code is clean, and Kiwix runs smoothly on every device it can be installed on (with some margin of improvement regarding UX).
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