http://bugs.openzim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34
Summary: zim files with umlaut in file name do not open
Product: openZIM
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P5
Component: zimlib
AssignedTo: tommi(a)tntnet.org
ReportedBy: cip(a)gmx.at
CC: dev-l(a)openzim.org
Estimated Hours: 0.0
To reproduce problem:
Rename a zim file so that it contains an umlaut.
e.g. film.zim to filmö.zim
Open in kiwix or wikionboard
Open fails.
Error messages:
Kiwix: Unable to load ... filmö.zim. Sind sie sicher, dass dies eine ZIM-Datei
ist?
WikiOnBoard: Error 86 opening file "... filmö.zim": Illegal byte sequence
(Tested with http://openzim.org/download/zim5/film.zim)
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http://bugs.openzim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18
Summary: debian needs an init.d script
Product: openZIM
Version: unspecified
Platform: PC
OS/Version: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P5
Component: zimreader
AssignedTo: tommi(a)tntnet.org
ReportedBy: andyr(a)wizzy.com
CC: dev-l(a)openzim.org
Estimated Hours: 0.0
One attached.
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Dear all,
Wikimania is approaching and by that also our first developers meeting
in 2011!
The openZIM team is happy to invite you to the first (really)
multinational developers meeting. After three meetings in the center of
Europe with mostly people from that area participating we are now going
to meet at Wikimania.
Prior to Wikimania are special conferences. The openZIM meeting is on
August 2nd and 3rd - the two days right before Wikimania starts - at
Beit Hecht, part of the Wikimania venue.
Please sign up here and participate in the planning:
* http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/OpenZIM_Developers_Meeting
For dedicated offline people there is still budget left so we can help
you funding your participation at this meeting! Contact me for this.
I'd be happy to see you there!
Manuel
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Manuel Schneider
Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge
www.wikimedia.ch
http://bugs.openzim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35
Summary: Completely unclear how to run a .zim file
Product: openZIM
Version: unspecified
Platform: PC
OS/Version: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P5
Component: zimreader
AssignedTo: tommi(a)tntnet.org
ReportedBy: o.jasper(a)gmail.com
CC: dev-l(a)openzim.org
Estimated Hours: 0.0
I am sure the `zim` command can use a .zim file like
schools-wikipedia-full-20081023-rc5.zim and put it up on
http://localhost:8080/, but i cannot figure out how. Suggest to put an example
using a .zim file in the man page.
PS looks like you have a pretty cool project!
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http://bugs.openzim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26
Summary: CRC check
Product: openZIM
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P3
Component: zimlib
AssignedTo: tommi(a)tntnet.org
ReportedBy: emmanuel(a)engelhart.org
CC: dev-l(a)openzim.org
Estimated Hours: 0.0
Downloaded ZIM files are unfortunately not always fully valid at the end of the
download stage. Consequently users may have a bad user experience without
having a chance to easily check if the file is valid.
It would be great to provide in the zimwriter/zimlib a way to check the zim
file integrity easily.
A way to achieve that could be:
* At the end of the ZIM file creation process (file is created) compute and
append at the end of the file a CRC (md5sum, sha1)
* In the zimlib add a method checkIntegrity() or something similar able to
compute the CRC from the file (excepting the CRC hash at the end) and make the
comparison.
Hash algorithm should be fast and reliable (md5?).
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cross posting to Offline & Wikimedia-India.
Hi
I'm working on the Wikimedia Foundation's initiatives in India and I'm reaching out for help on a really exciting opportunity. Assam is a state in the North-East of India. The Government has an interesting scheme to give laptops to deserving students leaving secondary school (i.e., completed 10 years of education and about 15-16 year olds.) This scheme is being managed by an organisation called Amtron - who have issued a Tender for the procurement of these laptops.
There are 19,000 laptops that will be distributed in this initiative. (These are on Ubuntu Linux - and very reasonably configured.)
Assam has traditionally had a problem with infrastructure and Internet access is a problem. Someone who is supporting Amtron has asked the Foundation if we can give them an offline version of Wikipedia to pre-load onto these computers. Given that it is for 15-16 age group, it does need to be of appropriate content. They'd like it to have topics of academic interest covered (e.g., classical sciences, humanities, literature and accountancy.) Ideally we'd like them to also have articles on India (e.g. history, geography, culture, etc.) as well as other areas of general interest (e.g., music, sports, etc.) Currently, everything is required in English only.
While these laptops aren't going to necessarily be in classrooms, given that they will be with some students, it's safe to assume that other students, friends and relatives would access these. Given the context of Assam, I thank we can easily assume that 10 people would access these computers. That adds up to improving access for nearly 2,00,000 people! I'm really inspired by the potential of this partnership because because it allows us huge scale with efficiency in effort.
I understand that Wikipedia for Schools is readying for release sometime in July 2011 - and the timing couldn't be better.
Can you help us out with
a) how you could help on adding the additional articles that this initiative would require? (You could also sign up on the Volunteer Page)
b) how fast this can be given to Amtron? (They are looking for the inputs in July 2011.)
c) any other ideas that you think might be useful?
Many thanks.
Best,
Hisham Mundol
Wikimedia India Programs
skype : hisham.wikimedia
gtalk : hmundol(a)wikimedia.org
twitter : @mundol
Hi
I have released the first beta of Kiwix 0.9. Binaries for Win32,
MacOSX, Ubuntu (PPA) are available, like the source code. You may
download them from Sourceforge or Kiwix Web site.
This took us almost 9 months to prepare this release... what is really
a long time between two dev. releases. But a lot of things were done
like:
* the Mac OSX port,
* the integrated content/download manager,
* the new search user interface.
Behind the scene, we newly integrate:
* aria2c to deal with downloads/uploads,
* ctpp2 as a template engine,
* pugixml as xml parser,
... and rebanped the whole set of compilation scripts.
Here is the CHANGELOG:
* Remove a hard coded path in kiwix-compact.sh (ID: 3135956)
* Avoid the flickering during mouseover links after canceling the
indexing
* Under Windows, installer adds now shortcuts to all users
* Force loading no plugin to avoid any problem (with libmoon for
example)
* Under Windows, the displayed (disk) "space required" value is now
correct in the installer
* kiwix-index backend argument is now an option and set as "xapian" per
default
* Fix regressions responsible for lower case titles in result list (ID:
3147594)
* Implement the HTTP 404 error in kiwix-serve
* Fix a small bug in the indexing code to avoid forgetting around 100
articles per ZIM file
* Disable DNS prefetching for external links
* New locales: Polish, Dutch
* Open a ZIM file directly from the command line
* Gnome and KDE integration: mime-type recognition + icon & application
associations (ZIM double-click feature)
* New checksum checker to be able to check ZIM file integrity
* A list of ZIM files to download is dynamicaly downloaded in the help
page if user online (ID: 3165272)
* Simplification and improvment of the searchbar (no search button
anymore, always available, standardized, ...)
* New Find-in-text bar (like in firefox, at the bottom), to replace the
dialogbox.
* Result sidebar removed and replaced by a result web page "a la
google"
* Usage of jar files for a quicker startup
* Kiwix for Mac OSX
* kiwix-serve CPU usage improvement (ID: 3213104)
* Update the Window title by switching the tabs
* New integrated content manager/downloader
* Introduction of Desktop notifications (ID: 3315162)
* New way to open link in new tab with shortcuts or drag&drop (ID:
3311320)
* Option to change the profile directory
Online:
http://kiwix.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/kiwix/moulinkiwix/CHANGELOG
The most important, we have done the mandatory work to setup a
decentralized solution to spread/share content (ZIM Files).
We still do not use all the power offered by the Metalink tech... but
we will (we still need new mirrors, please contact us if you may setup
one).
As a result almost all features we wanted to introduce for 0.9 are now
there and we plan now to use the next beta and RC releases to fix bugs
(I'm sure we will detect also a few regressions) and polish the
software. 0.9 Final release should be there for Christmas in the worth
case.
More people than usual helped me to prepare this version, I want
especially to thank:
* Tomasz and Ryan, from the WMF, for the big support and together work,
* Renaud for the OSX port,
* Testers which were for the first time really involved and help us so
much with their remarks.
Regards
Emmanuel
> Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 12:23:08 +0200
> From: emmanuel(a)engelhart.org
> To: offline-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> CC: abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Offline-l] [KIWIX] 0.9 beta1 for Win/Mac/Linux is out!
> Difficult to give an answer. I know they are a few things I want
> absolutely to be fixed and part of them are not so trivial. So I would
> say: we do our best to release 0.9 final version ASAP.
I'm not a tech guy, but I totally understand that there might be some bugs that you may need to rectify.
> I think, for you, as the end user, the most important is that it does
> what you want, and I think Kiwix 0.9 branch still works pretty good.
By Kiwix 0.9 branch, you mean the version that we used in Kenya? I was working with Jessie from the Foundation to create a separate version with some Kenyan topics in it. The list of topics are here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Content_Development/Schools…. It would be great if we would get these topics in, since I doubt that there will be a major difference in the Zanzibari syllabus with that of the Kenyan syllabus. > For an official department I understand they need a little bit more
> guaranty about the software. My answer would be :
> (1) we are open to any structured project with concrete aims, timeline, ...
I totally agree with you. I have also suggested a meeting with the Zanzibari folks so that we can discuss these project details thoroughly.
> (2) if they want a professional support contract, this is also possible.
What do you mean by ''professional support contract''?
> Abbas, hope to see you in Haifa. If you want, we could speak more in
> details about your needs.
Oh, I'm sorry i wouldn't be coming to Wikimania this year :(
Sincerely
Abbas.
Hi,
I've been tasked with building an offline copy of the Wikipedia website. The main goal is to have the database and images stored locally so that we can run a Wikipedia website on a local server. Our ultimate goal is to have Mediawiki and the Wikipedia database and images stored on a single hard drive in servers in schools in Zimbabwe where they have no Internet access.
I've made good progress so far but I can see that some templates are missing from my Offline Wikipedia. I only found that these templates were missing because I was checking random pages and noticed that the text "Template:abcdef" was displayed in red text. It has the alt text "Template:abcdef (page does not exist)". A couple of examples of missing templates are 'Template:Citation/make link' and 'Template:Gaps'.
My Offline Wikipedia data was imported into the MySQL database using the Mwdumper program. The source data came from the enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml file. I imported the page links into the database using the enwiki-latest-pagelinks.sql file.
Can anyone give me some guidance on how to troubleshoot this problem?
Thanks,
Kevin Clark
Connection Software
Hi all,
WikiOnBoard 1.0, the Qt-based zimfile reader for mobile phones, is now available
in the Nokia Ovi Store for Symbian^3 (e.g. Nokia N8) and Symbian^1 devices (e.g.
Nokia 5800):
http://store.ovi.com/content/148305
For older Nokia devices WikiOnBoard can be downloaded from
http://github.com/cip/WikiOnBoard, although I plan
to release a version to Ovi Store as well.
Thank you for your support, which made this possible.
Best regards,
Christian