Google Summer of Code 2010

Ideas

MediaWiki extension to create ZIM files

• content selection by user:
  • add a selector to each article "include this article"
  • provide a method to include categories / all articles with selected categories
  • choose if images should be included as well or not
  • choose if selected articles / category should be exported or the whole wiki
• content selection by extension:
  • make a list of all selected articles
  • make a list of all categories needed
  • make a list of all involved images / files
  • gather a list of involved MIME types
• ZIM header:
  • send the list of content to zimlib
  • create meta data for zimlib
  • send MIME type list
• ZIM content:
  • provide an interface for zimlib where it can fetch article content
  • retrieve HTML content of an article - only content section

zimreader for mobile phones

make a HTML viewer that uses zimlib to show contents on a mobile phone

can be

• Symbian
• J2ME