Just a note for apache, one can of course use mod_proxy to put kiwix serve
behind apache.
Am 20.07.2011 18:32 schrieb "Manuel Schneider" <
manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch>gt;:
Hi Kevin,
Am 20.07.2011 18:08, schrieb Kevin Clark:
>> what are your needs which cannot be met?
>
> We evaluated it a year ago so apologies if things have moved on since
then. I
recorded its weaknesses for the Wikipedia project we were planning
as:
1) No links between articles
sorry, the articles have always been perfect HTML, so including all
links... otherwise it wouldn't make sense at all.
2) Requires it's own browser, not a standard
desktop browser
ZIM files can be read by different applications, such as a TXT file can
be edited in many editor.
Kiwix is one of them, kiwix-serve in contrast is a server component -
you will need to use your favourite webbrowser to access / browse the
content of the ZIM file.
As said in 1) already, the content of ZIM files is perfect HTML anyway.
Kiwix-serve just provides the HTTP interface between the ZIM reader and
the browser.
3) Doesn't run under Apache
True.
> A) Our solution could run on Linux or Windows - Linux provides a key
part of
our infrastructure but our clients might not want to support it
Kiwix runs on Windows, Linux and MacOS X
WikiOnBoard runs on Symbian (and Android)
vido and qvido run on extremely small embedded Linux devices (less than
16 MB of RAM)
zimreader-java runs on anything that supports Java
> B) Our solution could be extended to support other Wikimedia sites, e.g.
Wiktionary - database dumps are readily available Wiktionary but I don't see
that same availability for OpenZIM files
as stated in 1), ZIM is a mere storage format for HTML content. You can
put anything in it, even non-MediaWiki stuff.
I am pretty sure that there are Wiktionary ZIM files around, and if not,
they can be made easily.
Did you know that the "print a book" feature (Collections Extension) in
Wikipedia creates ZIM files?
I have even heard about a project making combined ZIM files holding both
Wikipedia and Wiktionary in the same file.
The Wikimedia Foundation is working since more than a year now to
provide regular ZIM files from all Wikimedia wikis, just in the same way
they already do with XML and SQL files. The ZIM support in Collections
Extension was one of the steps to reach this goal.
/Manuel
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Manuel Schneider
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