2025:Program/Wikipedia-on-demand: export and share your own minipedia
Session title: Wikipedia-on-demand: export and share your own minipedia
- Session type: Demonstration
- Track: Technology
- Language: en
đ„ Session recording: https://w.wiki/FDa2 đ„
Imagine being able to make a list of articles, and then export these very articles into a mini-wikipedia that you can browse at will, anywhere and anytime.
Description
You can download Wikipedia for offline viewing, and store it on almost any phone or computer. But that is still 50 to 100GB of data, and not all of it is super useful to your purpose - particularly if you are trying to push Wikipedia in classrooms. Do students want to read articles about movies, pop-stars and sports? Yes! Do their teachers? Probably too, but not during classes.
Wikipedia-on-demand (or WP1) is a tool that allows you to generate a selection of articles and package them into a bespoke, portable Wikipedia that you can browse anywhere, anytime. Generate your own list, or do it straight from categories or Wikidata statements (e.g. "All articles from the Category:Geography_of_Kenya" or, if you can handle SPARQL/Wikidata "All articles about Japanese monuments built between 1600 and 1800").
We will show you how to do it so that you come out of this fully able to use this tool for your own projects.
- How does your session relate to the event theme, Wikimania@20 â Inclusivity. Impact. Sustainability?
This tool shows how people without connectivity still can access Wikimedia content offline
- What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?
Everyone can participate in this session
Resources
Speakers
- Stephane @Kiwix
- Stephane is one of the co-founders of Kiwix, the offline Wikipedia reader. Living in Switzerland, he's been editing since 2004 and thinks most speaker biographies are boring. His talks are *not* boring.
- benoit
- BenoĂźt began contributing to Wikipedia 20 years ago, though his involvement remained modest for many years. From time to time, he supported the movementâboth financially and by volunteering his time.
- In 2023, BenoĂźt joined Kiwix, dedicating his efforts to bringing Wikimedia and other valuable knowledge offline. His work helps children in unconnected schools, inmates in prisons, people facing state censorship, and even preppers preparing for the unexpected.