Dear Wikimania Program Committee, thank you for your interest and trust. I am glad to inform you that I will participate at Wikimania 2009 and am looking forward to hold this talk.
Some more indepth information for you and the reviewers: * since April openZIM is supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, creation of ZIM files is currently being integrated into the regular dumping process by Tomasz Finc * openZIM takes the content portion of the article's HTML and stores that, without the "skin" around. The skin can be placed separately inside the ZIM file and used by the reader when displaying articles, or the reader comes with its own skin. This is better than using database dumps because there is no need to parse the Wikitext, it keeps the reader application as simple as possible, on the other hand it is nearly improssible to write a full wikitext parser which has all neccessary extensions and all templates like MediaWiki. See you in Buenos Aires, Manuel Am 1.6.2009 schrieb "Wikimania Program" <[email protected]>: >Manuel Schneider: > >We are glad to tell you that your submission "openZIM - serving the >Wikipedia Offline Projects" has been accepted for presentation at Wikimania >2009 in the casual track. > >Please confirm whether you are able to attend the conference and do this >event no later than June 20, 2009. We are unable to schedule speakers >without confirmations. > >The comments at the bottom of this message were filled by the reviewers of >your submission. > >As more information becomes available, particularly in terms of your >presentationâs scheduling, we will let you know. > >Thank you and looking forward to your participation in this event. > >Sincerely, >Wikimania Program >[email protected] > >------------------------------------------------------ >Reviewer C: >OpenZIM is (another) very useful tool for packing offline content. >Wikimania will benefit of getting news on its current development status, >taking into account the existence of a number of projects in different >languages to build offline implementations. > >------------------------------------------------------ >Reviewer D: >Reuse of wiki content in various formats, including offline distribution, >is an important and relevant topic that would be of interest to Wikimania >attendees. > >openZIM appears to take Wikipedia database dumps as input and outputs them >into the ZIM file format which can be read on Linux or Macs. One concern is >the use of database dumps. These are available for most language versions >of Wikipedia, except for full history versions of English. Are the current >page version dumps sufficient for openZIM? Also, it's not clear if the >reader software available works for Windows, which a lot of people still >use? > >Anyway, the experience with making DVDs for the German Wikipedia would be >worth hearing about and getting answers to more technical questions would >also be good. I think the presentation is a good fit and the presenter is >well-qualified to speak on the topic. >________________________________________________________________________ >Wikimania Wikimania 2009 >http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org > _______________________________________________ dev-l mailing list [email protected] https://intern.openzim.org/mailman/listinfo/dev-l
