OpenZIM

This is the openZIM project, a free and open source implementation of the ZIM file format. You will find here documentation about the ZIM file format, the openZIM software and the project management. The ZIM file format was created to provide a standard way to make webcontent offline available. Its major usage is to provide Wikipedia content offline, like in Wikipedia DVDs. The openZIM project is sponsored by Wikimedia CH. the openZIM Project Releases Roadmap Known Bugs Subversion Development Tools Mailinglist Project Team Developer Meetings Visuals Press Releases Documentation ZIM File Format - documentation of the file format the openZIM project is based on Zeno File Format - the original documentation of the underlying Zeno file format by Directmedia (german) ZIMlib C++ implementation of the ZIM file format ZIMreader - software to read content from ZIM files (uses ZIMlib) ZIMwriter - software to compress media content into ZIM files (uses ZIMlib) wiki2html - tools to dump content from MediaWiki Contribute this wiki is open for free editing to all registered users register yourself ZIM File Archive We collect and distribute free ZIM files, such as Wikipedia DVDs. Build & Publish your ZIM File ZIM File Archive ZIM File Download Mirrors

News and Events Wikimania 2011 August 2nd - 7th During the Hacking Days (Aug. 2nd/3rd), prior to Wikimania 2011 (Aug. 4th - 7th), we will have our 4th Developers Meeting. The Hacking Days / Wikimania / Developers Meeting takes place in Haifa, Israel. Wikimania 2011 website. WikiOnBoard released to Ovi Store 2011-07-21 Get the WikiOnBoard ZIM Reader for your Symbian / Nokia device: http://store.ovi.com/content/148305 Source code is available here: http://github.com/cip/WikiOnBoard Make ZIM files now easily with Collection Extension 2011-03-09 Today Wikimedia Foundation announced that the Collection Extension for MediaWiki, developed by PediaPress, is now able to create ZIM files. So you can easily select the content you want and just export a ZIM file. Announcement on the Technical Blog Extension page 3rd Delevopers Meeting 2010-10-19 We had our Developers Meeting on October 15th to 17th in Strasbourg. Read our report. ZIM and LZMA2 for Java 2011-06-09 Arunesh Mathur is developing a ZIMReader in Java for developers who are interested in making Android and J2ME based offline readers. Find the code here: http://svn.openzim.org/viewvc.cgi/trunk/zimreader-java/ Lasse Collin has ported LZMA2 to Java. You can download the source and the docs over here: http://tukaani.org/xz/java.html Feel free to contribute. Lasse's code is open source software. Wikimania 2010 July 9th - 11th, 2010 At the yearly international Wikimedia conference, this year in Gdansk (PL) there will be a long Wikipedia Offline workshop where openZIM is involved (Friday 9th, 2 - 6 pm). Also many of the openZIM team are participating at Wikimania. Meet us in Gdansk! Abstract of Creating offline version of Wiki content - Solutions and Challenges Wikimania 2010 website Wikipedia DVD LinuxTag 2009 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.zim report bugs! Wikimania 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 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 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. Press Release