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{{box-news|Cooperation with Wikimedia Foundation|2009-04-16|In a phone conference with [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff Erik Möller, Brion Vibber and Tomasz Finc of the Wikimedia Foundation] and [[Team|Manuel]] the goals and deliverables of the openZIM project have been discussed. The WMF aims to include the ZIM file format into [http://download.wikimedia.org/ their dump process] and that they will support openZIM to become the standard offline format for Wikimedia Wikis. Long-term goal is to have a "one-click" functionality inside MediaWiki to create ZIM files on demand. Some more interesting ideas and projects the Wikimedia Foundation is looking forward have been discussed, openZIM may become part of those as well.}} | {{box-news|Cooperation with Wikimedia Foundation|2009-04-16|In a phone conference with [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff Erik Möller, Brion Vibber and Tomasz Finc of the Wikimedia Foundation] and [[Team|Manuel]] the goals and deliverables of the openZIM project have been discussed. The WMF aims to include the ZIM file format into [http://download.wikimedia.org/ their dump process] and that they will support openZIM to become the standard offline format for Wikimedia Wikis. Long-term goal is to have a "one-click" functionality inside MediaWiki to create ZIM files on demand. Some more interesting ideas and projects the Wikimedia Foundation is looking forward have been discussed, openZIM may become part of those as well.}} | ||
{{box-news|openZIM project started|2009-02-22|The first [[Developer Meetings|developer meeting]] of openZIM just took place near Basel (CH). A team consisting Tommi Mäkitalo [http://www.tntnet.org/ (Tntnet)], Emmanuel | {{box-news|openZIM project started|2009-02-22|The first [[Developer Meetings|developer meeting]] of openZIM just took place near Basel (CH). A team consisting Tommi Mäkitalo [http://www.tntnet.org/ (Tntnet)], Emmanuel Engelhart [http://www.kiwix.org/ (Kiwix)], Johannes Schauer [http://www.openmoko.org/ (OpenMoko)] and Manuel Schneider [http://www.wikimedia.ch/ (Wikimedia CH)] have been formed. openZIM will provide free documentation and implementation of the ZIM file format, an efficient storage for hypertext data, aimed at offline access to Wikipedia. | ||
Current goal is to present the project at LinuxTag 2009 in Berlin and have a Wikipedia DVD with all german articles ready by then as a demonstration object. | Current goal is to present the project at LinuxTag 2009 in Berlin and have a Wikipedia DVD with all german articles ready by then as a demonstration object. | ||
* [[2009-02-22 Release for Wikimedia CH|Press Release]]}} | * [[2009-02-22 Release for Wikimedia CH|Press Release]]}} | ||
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2nd Developers Meeting
November 20th - 22nd, 2009
November 20th - 22nd, 2009
The second developer meeting of openZIM will take place in south-western Germany, near Basel. Scheduled are some fixes of the file formats and search indexing and portability to other readers on differen platforms. openZIM devs, hardware vendors, Wikimedia Foundation representatives and publishers will get together to work in these topics.
Participate!
Wikipedia DVD LinuxTag 2009
2009-06-24
2009-06-24
Our Wikipedia DVD is available on our booth at LinuxTag in Berlin, hall 7.2a booth 113a.
- running the zimreader on DVD
bin/zimreader zim/wikip000.zim -x zim/wikipedi.zimreport bugs!
Wikimania 2009
August 26th - 28th, 2009
August 26th - 28th, 2009
openZIM has presented itself, its goals and delieverables at the annual international Wikimania conference in Buenos Aires. Visit the talk of Manuel Schneider and get in touch with us!
- Wikimania website
- openZIM - serving the Wikipedia Offline Projects
- Video recording of the presentation
Cooperation with Wikimedia Foundation
2009-04-16
2009-04-16
In a phone conference with Erik Möller, Brion Vibber and Tomasz Finc of the Wikimedia Foundation and Manuel the goals and deliverables of the openZIM project have been discussed. The WMF aims to include the ZIM file format into their dump process and that they will support openZIM to become the standard offline format for Wikimedia Wikis. Long-term goal is to have a "one-click" functionality inside MediaWiki to create ZIM files on demand. Some more interesting ideas and projects the Wikimedia Foundation is looking forward have been discussed, openZIM may become part of those as well.
openZIM project started
2009-02-22
2009-02-22
The first developer meeting of openZIM just took place near Basel (CH). A team consisting Tommi Mäkitalo (Tntnet), Emmanuel Engelhart (Kiwix), Johannes Schauer (OpenMoko) and Manuel Schneider (Wikimedia CH) have been formed. openZIM will provide free documentation and implementation of the ZIM file format, an efficient storage for hypertext data, aimed at offline access to Wikipedia.
Current goal is to present the project at LinuxTag 2009 in Berlin and have a Wikipedia DVD with all german articles ready by then as a demonstration object.