Hi Tomasz,
thanks for the heads-up. It is very exciting to see things evolve on a
broad front now.
Am 08.01.2011 01:54, schrieb Tomasz Finc:
- PediaPress, Collections and openZim
PediaPress has agreed to do some contract work for us to extend the current
collections MediaWiki extension to support openZim ! The'll be starting on this
mid January and will be looking for community members to help with testing
valid openZim indices.
I have added this to
* http://openzim.org/Developer_Meetings/2011-1#Agenda
because I hope that we meet all involved persons there.
- Usability evaluation of Kiwix
Kiwix has been an awesome solution for browsing offline Wikipedia. We think
that it could be even better with some careful attention to the search and
browse experience. During Q1 we'll be doing a UX evaluation of Kiwix to find
out how we can make the interface even easier to use. We'll be working closely
with Emmanuel and others to implement our findings.
This is now also on the agenda of Wikimania / Dev. Meetup.
Renaud Gaudin who is working on Kiwix as a contractor will - as far as
discussed with Emmanuel - be part of that meeting.
- Evaluation and extension of Wikipedia Release Version Tools
The offline Wikipedia team has been steadily releasing new versions of their
Wikipedia collection but technical limitations have hampered how quickly those
can be finished. Were taking a close look at their tools and seeing where we
can help in creation of new indices.
I had a discussion with Roan concerning "wikizim", the tool that creates
a ZIM file from a whole wiki by using the API.
His idea was to integrate the parser and the relevant wikizim code to
make a dumping tool with less overhead, suitable for the Wikimedia
static dumps. I have pointed him to the relevant code in the openZIM
SVN, but the discussion has been interrupted by the MW 1.17 release he
had to work on.
Additionally Jessie Wild from the Wikimedia Foundation was in contact
with me concerning a strategical Wikimedia Offline meetup, somewhere
before Wikimania. I am in favour of that and would recommend to do this
as apart of the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin, before the chapters
meeting on 25th - 27th.
I would appreciate it if you could talk to Roan and Jessie to keep them
and us in the loop. Maybe we should move part of the discussions - as
suggested by Jessie - to offline-l, when everyone interested in general
strategical Offline discussions is subscribed there (to not to clog the
developer mailing lists and still avoid private mailings which always
leaves someone out).
/Manuel
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Regards
Manuel Schneider
Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge
www.wikimedia.ch
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