Hi, It's great to know the progress of openZIM. :)
I checked the WikiOnBoard wiki page but haven't found the information on Android. Is this still not released yet? For touch screen UI on Android you would need a Java app to interact with the Android UI system and use JNI interfaces to leverage your C/C++ lib. But I guess you know how it works. Regards, Ted Chien Secretary Wikimedia Taiwan http://LinkedIn.com/in/htchien Sent from my iPad On 2010/10/20, at 上午12:26, Manuel Schneider <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > last weekend the openZIM team held its Developers Meeting for 2010. We > planned to have two Developers Meeting per year, one in spring, one in fall. > But as there were too many events in and around spring and all of us are > volunteers we decided to better spend this weekend with our families. So this > was our first and only Developers Meeting in 2010. > > Participants: > * Emmanuel Engelhard (Kiwix maintainer and organizer of this meeting) > * Tommi Mäkitalo (openZIM main developer) > * Christian Pühringer (WikiOnBoard maintainer) > * Ralf Schmitt (developer of Pediapress) > * Manuel Schneider > > == Collections Extension for MediaWiki / Pediapress == > Ralf from Pediapress visited us on Saturday to discuss with us the > integration of the ZIM format into their Collections extension which is used > on Wikimedia wikis to create books (printed on demand or exported as PDF or > ODF). This idea was born on the Wikimedia Conference in April 2010 when we > had a Wikipedia Offline meeting. > > Tommi and Ralf exchanged thoughts about the implementation, Tommi made some > changes to the zimwriter to make it more modular while Ralf wrote a Python > wrapper for zimlib. In a test program Ralf was able to create his first ZIM > file using Python and the new modularized zimwriter. > > While Pediapress is in touch with the Wikimedia Foundation in order to make a > project with them for the integration of ZIM into their software Ralf agreed > to at least finish the test program in Python which can be downloaded here: > http://github.com/schmir/pyzim > > We hope that WMF and Pediapress come to an agreement so the actual > integration can happen soon. > > == Documentation of the ZIM File Format == > As we made a lot of changes last year on the ZIM file format the > documentation was partly outdated and partly not detailed enough. We spent > roughly one day to improve the documentation, its size has doubled during > this weekend. > > A few parts of the format, notably the URL scheme and encoding, native > category handling, per-article meta data and the HTML layout was not properly > specified, so we spend some time to discuss the details and fix these issues. > They need to be implemented now, maybe the last major changes to the ZIM > format, but these changes don't break compatibility as they were already > prepared in the past. > > Another addition to the format - a new idea, but also backward-compatible - > was the checksum. Newer ZIM files can now be checked by the new zimlib if > they are corrupted. This was a request from users in Peru which have a hard > time to download ZIM files and as they often have to resume transfers the > files are likely to get corrupted. As they still work in most parts but cause > errors in specific situations only it was hard to tell what the problem was. > > http://openzim.org/ZIM_File_Format > > == Reader Applications == > News on specific readers, this is not a list of all available reader > applications. > > === Windows / Linux === > Kiwix is already wellknown and works perfectly on both GNU/Linux and Windows. > It is a GUI application - a browser - to view ZIM files and also features a > webserver to view ZIM in a network using a standard browser. > > Emmanuel's roadmap is to create big ZIM files in the next months including > all images for the selected articles. The next WP 1.0 release will be > produced soon, the selection process is almost done. He bought a new server > to do that, partly sponsored by Wikimedia Italia. The biggest effort is to > create and optimize all the thumbnails of the images, so he is now trying to > get a server at the datacenter of the Wikimedia Foundation where he can read > the image files directly from the repositories. > > http://www.kiwix.org/index.php/Main_Page > > === Symbian / Android === > This year Christian published WikiOnBoard, a Symbian application to view ZIM > files. It works very well on recent Nokia phones. On Sunday Christian > presented us WikiOnBoard on Android - after he was able to get Qt installed > on Android WikiOnBoard can be compiled on Android without any porting. > > The plan is to implement a touch screen GUI to WikiOnBoard, so it can be used > on never Nokia phones and on Android devices. The current version of > WikiOnBoard only works with a keyboard which becomes less and less common. > Once this is done WikiOnBoard will be published in the Nokia Ovi Store and > Android market. > > Christian asked for sponsorship for a new touch screen phone (about 150 EUR > plus the help to get it via Germany as it is not available yet in many other > countries). As the openZIM budget offers enough room for this it only depends > on the team to approve this sponsorship. > > http://wiki.github.com/cip/WikiOnBoard/ > > == MediaWiki API interface for zimwriter == > Emmanuel and Tommi want to write a proof-of-concept of a zimwriter interface > which uses the MediaWiki API directly to get all articles out of a wiki. > > == ZIM File Library == > We want to start working on our ZIM File library to make it easier for users > to fine ZIM files. > > This involves finding mirror sites and writing a download page which reads > ZIM meta data, shows a searchable list of files and redirects downloads to > the mirror servers. > > == Events in 2011 == > === Developers Meeting === > August 2nd / 3rd > > We decided to have the next and only openZIM meeting in 2011 during the > Hacking Days which are prior Wikimania 2011 in Haifa, Israel. > > Asuming that we will be able to get the same sponsorship as this year we > agreed that in this case will reimburse travel costs for this meeting in > Israel. > > Registration to Wikimania will start in January, Manuel will send a > notification to the openZIM mailing list. Everyone interested is urged to > register and pay as soon as possible, as there will be a decent early bird > discount and accommodation is part of the registration. Then everyone should > book a flight. The receipts and invoices for registration and the flights > will then go to Manuel who will take care of the reimbursement. > > === LinuxTag === > May 11th - 14th > > As always LinuxTag will take place in Berlin and we will be part of it. We > plan to have one or two talks about openZIM, Tommi will do again a > live-coding session to show how to use zimlib while Emmanuel offered a talk > about the steps of how to create an offline version of Wikipedia, explaining > selection, code cleanups, link rewriting etc. > > == End == > Ok, that's it. Quite a long report, but we actually did a lot of work during > these two days. Additionally it is always very valuable to speak face-to-face > and get to know new team members. > > This last year was not as active concerning features and development as last > year, but I consider it being a great progress nevertheless - this year we > were able to stabilize the format, get the implementation and documentation > right and reach out for new users such as Pediapress or WikiOnBoard. > > The next year we will have to > * finish the last open items concerning implementation > * get the mobile readers released to the official markets / app stores > * get the toolchains between MediaWiki and ZIM running, such as Collections > extension and the MW API interface > > Pictures: See here http://openzim.org/Developer_Meetings/2010-2 > > Thanks for the participants to be there and help getting the work done and to > Wikimedia CH as our generous sponsor to make this possible. > > Thank you for your attention, > > > Manuel Schneider > > -- > Regards > Manuel Schneider > > Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens > Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge > www.wikimedia.ch > _______________________________________________ > dev-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://intern.openzim.org/mailman/listinfo/dev-l _______________________________________________ dev-l mailing list [email protected] https://intern.openzim.org/mailman/listinfo/dev-l
