Hello,
Jim Wales aka Jimbo had the idea to make an encyclopedia, but the first
version of MediaWiki is attributed to Magnus Manke.
Emmanuel Engelhart aka Kelson had the idea to make Kiwix, but the first
version of Kiwix was made by Fabien Coulon for Linterweb.
In opensource software, it is customary to attribute authorship to the
coders of the first functional version of a software who made these
sources public.
This article don't mention Renaud or Emmanuel, but only Linterweb as
designer on April 26, 2007 :
https://web.archive.org/web/20070429040001/http://www.01net.com/editorial/347463/encyclopedie/une-version-francaise-de-wikipedia-bientot-en-dvd/
I don't deny the participation of Emmanuel Engelhart on the mirror
aspect at the beginning of the project, as he says on the first message
on the list.
"Hello everyone, just a quick email to introduce the people involved in
kiwix. So far: Nytux (Fabien), he is the one who coded everything, so he
is the one to ask questions about the search engine and the rest. He is
an employee of Linterweb Pm27 (Pascal), he is the boss of Fabien and
Linterweb, he is the treasurer. I had the idea for the project, I am a
volunteer for Wikimedia France and I am responsible for dumps for
Wikipedia selections. There you go. Emmanuel"
https://sourceforge.net/p/kiwix/mailman/kiwix-developer/?limit=100&viewmonth=200706
Don't ask me why, but sourceforge didn't keep the branches, I don't know
why but the waybackmachine kept some bits.
Fabien Coulon aka Nytux aka Coulonito made the first commits on this
branch of Kiwix.
https://web.archive.org/web/20090803143858/http://sourceforge.net/users/coulonito
This screenshot is the first appearance of Kiwix, posted by Emmanuel
Engelhart, it clearly says developed by Linterweb, thus recognizing our
contributions at the time :
https://web.archive.org/web/20070409082337/http://www.kiwix.org/index.php/Image:Ocean_blue_skin_example.jpg
Fabien Coulon had admin's rights from the beginning of the project:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070306091713/http://sourceforge.net/projects/kiwix/
The merger between the two projects took place only in 2008.
In 2008 it was Guillaume Duhamel aka Yabause for Linterweb who also
worked on it, he created the common branch with moulinkiwi.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080915100426/http://kiwix.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/kiwix/
https://www.clubic.com/actualite-243284-kiwix-wikipedia-cle-usb.html
Once again we only talk about Linterweb as a designer on this version.
As Guillaume points out, the only binaries for which we have not
published the code were made for Okawix, in no case has Linterweb
published binaries for Kiwix:
https://linuxfr.org/nodes/96954/comments/1420846
I am surprised to don't find the mention of the linterweb employees's
contribution on the Kiwix articles on Wikipedia in in english.
Like on the Hispanic article that the disagreement would be about a
disagreement on the sources. I broke the partnership following the ban
on exploiting for commercial use of the Kiwix project, as the external
source says.
I am not trying to know who carried these rumors but that someone brings
me the contributions of the creators' code.
Is there any public proof of the contribution of the code to the first
version of Kiwix that is attributed to Emmanuel and Renaud?
Sorry to come back to a 15 year old story, but the distortions on
Wikipedia articles led to an editing conflict on the French Kiwix
article, considering Renaud Gaudin and Emmanuel Engelhart as the creator
of Kiwix.
But all the links prove that Kiwix was created by Fabien Coulon for
Linterweb.
For Linterweb,
Pascal Martin
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