On Jan 8, 2011, at 2:01 AM, Tommi Mäkitalo wrote:

> Hi Tomasz,
> 
> thank you for the information about current happenings.
> 
> What I'm especially interested in are the technical limitations, the offline 
> Wikipedia team has. What are these technical limitations? Is there anything 
> where I can help.

We'll get our first good understanding of that once the collections work is 
done.

> Recently I created a tool, which just grabs all articles from a running 
> mediawiki using the api and creates a zim file out of it. No indirection 
> through files or database any more. That was really easy.

Nice .. this will be super nice to test with.

> The tool is not really finished yet since it needs to rewrite links to point 
> to 
> the zim file to be really usable, but that is easy to do e.g. using regular 
> expressions.
> 
> If I know, how you plan to create the zim files, I may create a tool, which 
> makes that as smooth as possible.

I'll mail out as soon as I hear back from my PediaPress contact.

--tomasz
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