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this is a really good news and it would be appropriate to have at this time a ZIM file with articles issued from Wikipedia in Spanish. I already plan to release a ZIM with 120.000 articles and thumbnails in Spanish in the next weeks. Current dev. status in alpha2: http://tmp.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia_es_kiwix_80000+_05_2009_alpha2.zim Kiwix is already translated in Spanish and I have a good tester/translator in Mexico. Would be good to have in addition a ZIM with only article texts but with all of them. Regards Emmanuel Manuel Schneider a écrit : > 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 >> presentation’s 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkorn8MACgkQn3IpJRpNWtPgHACgzAUnYhbLtLHCnhoJQtXJfSPT fdgAnjcRK1e5eDOnOVLHnroNaki2a3Qf =xOwT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ dev-l mailing list [email protected] https://intern.openzim.org/mailman/listinfo/dev-l
